BenevolentAI
Sir Nigel is a visionary and pioneer in AI and machine learning with an academic career spanning back to 1978 when he began a PhD at Edinburgh University in AI. Sir Nigel is now Principal of Jesus College and a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford where he specialises in human-centred computing. He is also a Visiting Professor in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. In 2009, he was appointed as Information Advisor to the UK government and continues to advise in a number of roles to this day. He was a Founding Director of the Web Science Research Initiative, a joint endeavour between the University of Southampton and MIT and is a Director and Trustee of the Web Science Trust. He is also a Director of the World Wide Web Foundation and is Chairman of the Open Data Institute which he founded back in 2012 with Sir Tim Berners Lee.
This person is not in the org chart
This person is not in any teams
This person is not in any offices
BenevolentAI
8 followers
BenevolentAI combines advanced AI and machine learning with cutting edge science to decipher complex disease biology, generate novel insights and discover more effective medicines. Our unique computational R&D platform spans every step of the drug discovery process, powering an in-house pipeline of 25+ drug programmes from early discovery towards clinical phases. With several successful collaborations with leading pharmaceutical organisations, we are also the only AI-drug discovery company with a clinically validated approach, discovering a leading repurposed drug candidate for COVID-19. BenevolentAI is headquartered in London with a research facility in Cambridge (UK) and a further office in New York, with a team of over 300 world-leading scientists and technologists progressing its mission to reinvent drug discovery and advance life-changing drugs through to the clinic.