Nello Cristianini


Nello Cristianini is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol.

Education

Cristianini holds a degree in Physics from the University of Trieste, a Master in Computational Intelligence from the University of London and a PhD from the University of Bristol. Previously he has been an Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis.

Research

His research contributions encompass the fields of machine learning, artificial intelligence and bioinformatics. Particularly, his work has focused on statistical analysis of learning algorithms, to its application to support vector machines, kernel methods and other algorithms. Cristianini is the co-author of two widely known books in machine learning, An Introduction to Support Vector Machines and Kernel Methods for Pattern Analysis and a book
in bioinformatics .
Recent research has focused on the big-data analysis of newspapers content, the analysis of social media content,
and the ethical implication of data-driven approaches to science and society. Previous research had focused on unified
theoretical frameworks for statistical pattern analysis; machine learning and artificial intelligence; machine translation; bioinformatics.
As a practitioner of data-driven AI and Machine Learning, Cristianini frequently gives public talks about the need for a deeper ethical understanding of the effects of modern data-science on society.

Awards and honours

Cristianini is a recipient of the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award and a current holder of a European Research Council Advanced Grant.
In June 2014, Nello Cristianini was included in a list of the "most influential scientists of the decade" compiled
by Thomson Reuters.
In December 2016 he was included in the list of Top100 most influential researchers in Machine Learning by AMiner - . In 2017 Nello Cristianini was the keynote speaker at the Annual STOA Lecture at the European Parliament.