Nigel Shadbolt is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton. He is a member of the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group and Director of Interdisciplinary Research within ECS. His research concentrates on two ends of the spectrum of AI - namely, Knowledge Technologies and Biorobotics.
In 2000 he led a consortium of five Universities that secured an EPSRC Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT). Professor Shadbolt is the Director of this multi-million pound, six-year research programme that is pursuing basic and applied research in the provision of technologies to support Knowledge Management and realise the promise of the Semantic Web. He has published some 250 articles on various facets of AI, and has written and co-edited five books. Since 1985, Professor Shadbolt has, singly or jointly, secured and directed 30 research grants worth over £20M.
In its 50th Anniversary year, Nigel is President of the British Computer Society. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Academy of Engineering and the British Computer Society. From 2001 to 2004 he was Editor in Chief of IEEE Intelligent Systems and in 2005 he was appointed Emeritus Editor in Chief. He is also a Fellow of the European AI Association (ECCAI). He is a member of various national committees including the UK EPSRC Strategic Advisory Team (SAT) for ICT and the Human Sciences and Technology Sub-Committee of the UK Defence Scientific Advisory Committee (DSAC).