John Woodward
Head of School of Mathematical and Computer Science
- Campus
- Dubai
- Department
- Computer Science
- J.Woodward@hw.ac.uk
Biography
John Woodward is Head of School of Mathematical and Computer Science in Dubai.
His research draws on techniques and advances in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Optimisation, and Operational Research, and has applied these techniques to healthcare, aviation, and software development domains.
His work is motivated by theoretical insights, and pushing this through to the practical design of novel competitive algorithms.
In particular, he asks; how can we use AI/ML techniques to improve computer code, in terms of accuracy, speed, power consumption, bandwidth and memory usage.
Academic Leadership and Affiliations
- Head of School of Maths and Computer Science
- Member of British Computer Society
- External examiner at Exeter and Galway Universities
- Member of British Operational Society
Qualifications
- BSc Theoretical Physics, MSc Psychology, PhD Artificial Intelligence 2006
Research
Woodward’s research span Machine Learning, Optimization, AI and Operational Research.
He has attracted funding from the EPSRC in the shape of 3 grants centred on the automatic design of algorithms for applications in aviation, software engineering and optimisation.