Professor Dave Cliff
Professor of Computer Science
University of Bristol
Dave Cliff is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bristol. He has a BSc in Computer Science and an MA and PhD in Cognitive Science.
He previously served in academic faculty jobs at the University of Sussex (UK), at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab (USA), and at the University of Southampton (UK). From 1998-2005 Cliff worked as an industrial research scientist: formerly as a Department Scientist at the Hewlett-Packard Labs European Research Centre in Bristol, where he founded and led HP’s Complex Adaptive Systems research group; and latterly as a Director in Deutsche Bank’s Foreign Exchange (FX) Complex Risk Group, on Deutsche’s City of London FX trading floor.
In October 2005, Cliff was appointed Director of the UK national research and training initiative in the science and engineering of Large-Scale Complex IT Systems (LSCITS). The LSCITS Initiative commenced formally in October 2007, is funded by almost £10m of UK public funds, and will involve more than 250 person-years of research effort over its first phase: full details are available at www.lscits.org. Cliff is author or co-author on over 70 academic publications, inventor or co-inventor on 15 patents; and he has undertaken advisory and consultancy work for a number of major companies and for the UK Government. He has given well over 100 invited keynote lectures and seminars; and he and his work have frequently been featured both in the press and on TV and radio. He is a visiting professor at the University of Leeds, a chartered fellow of the British Computer Society, a member of EPSRC’s ICT Strategic Advisory Team, and a member of CPHC.
