Profile

I have the pleasure of living in and working in Liverpool.  I conduct research on exciting topics within AI at the University of Liverpool.

As well as working with a great research team, I get to watch the best football team in the world play and parade their trophies around the city – most of my family are huge LFC fans.

My work involves reading a lot of scientific articles, but I also like reading a wide range of books as part of a book club I attend.

My house is full of board games that I enjoy playing with my children and I also enjoy playing pool.

My job involves two roles: a management role and a role as a professor.

As a manager, I am responsible for overseeing the direction and running of two departments, computer science and electrical engineering.  This work involves deciding what we teach, recruting students and running up research labs to enable staff to carry out their scientific research.

As a professor, I read about new scientific results, work on experiments to model legal reasoning using AI, write reports on the results, present new results at conferences, supervise PhD students, work with law firms to help them start to use AI and apply for funding from the government to work on new research ideas.  I am also involved in teaching activities where I deliver lectures to large classes of students and supervise students working on their own projects as part of their degree studies.

I start the day by processing a batch of the large number of emails I receive, then I usually have a few hours of meetings.  These can be on a wide range of topics: strategy and planning meetings related to my role as Dean of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science; or teaching meetings where I give guidance to students on AI projects they are working on; or research meetings where I meet with colleagues, PhD students and collaborators to talk about our ongoing research investigations.

If it’s a really exciting week, I might be attending a conference in another country to present new research results or visiting one of the law firms I work with on using our research in their company.

When I come home, I make sure my children get ferried around to their evening activities: football/swimming/karate/cubs.