Inspiring people

David Manlove

Professor David Manlove is a world expert on algorithms for matching problems. He led the development of the algorithms, used by the NHS as part of the UK Living Kidney Sharing Scheme, to find optimal sets of kidney exchanges, to help patients with willing but incompatible donors receive a kidney transplant.

Julie Williamson

Dr Julie Williamson's research focuses on how people use technology in public spaces. She works with artists and designers to develop digital and technological installations that the public can explore and interact with - for example, to revitalise under-used urban niches.

Phil Trinder

Professor Phil Trinder is a leading researcher on technology for parallel programming - how to exploit modern many-core microprocessors to implement faster software. He is especially known for work on the Haskell and Erlang programming languages.

Helen Purchase

Dr Helen Purchase works on information visualisation - how to display complex information to best enable human understanding. Her book "Experimental Human Computer Interaction" is a guide for empirical research in HCI. Dr Purchase has Teaching Excellence Awards from the University of Glasgow and the University of Queensland. 

Iadh Ounis

Professor Iadh Ounis is a world-leading researcher in information retrieval. He developed Terrier, a high-performance scalable search engine which is widely used around the world.

Kitty Meeks

Dr Kitty Meeks uses ideas from pure mathematics to address practical problems arising in computer science, especially in algorithms and computational complexity. She holds a Personal Research Fellowship from the Royal Society of Edinburgh.