Wendy Hall

Wendy Hall

Dame Wendy Hall, DBE, FRS, FREng is Regius Professor of Computer Science, Associate Vice President (International Engagement) and is Director of the Web Science Institute at the University of Southampton. She became a Dame Commander of the British Empire in the 2009 UK New Year’s Honours list and is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the ACM. Dame Wendy was co-Chair of the UK government’s AI Review, which was published in October 2017 and a member of the AI Council. She is currently the coChair of the ACM Publications Board and Editor-in-Chief of Royal Society Open Science. She is an advisor to the UK government and many other governments and companies around the world and in 2023 was appointed to the United Nations highlevel advisory body on artificial intelligence. Her latest book, Four Internets, cowritten with Kieron O’Hara, was published by OUP in 2021.

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    University of Southampton
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    Regius Professor of Computer Science, Associate Vice President (International Engagement), Director of the Web Science Institute
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9 July 2025
09:00 - 12:15
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