Nigel Shadbolt

Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt is an author and scientist. He is Professorial Research Fellow in Computer Science at the University of Oxford, Principal of Jesus College, and Chairman of the Open Data Institute, which he co-founded with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and was previously Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Southampton.

Shadbolt is an interdisciplinary researcher, policy expert and commentator. He has studied and researched Psychology, Cognitive Science, Computational Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computer Science and the emerging field of Web science. Running through all of his work has been his desire to understand how intelligent behaviour is embodied and emerges in humans, machines and most recently on the Web.