{"id":319,"date":"2024-05-24T09:32:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T08:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/?p=319"},"modified":"2024-05-24T09:32:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T08:32:29","slug":"head-of-the-department-of-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/2024\/05\/24\/head-of-the-department-of-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of the Department of Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Professor Alessandra Russo has accepted the appointment of Head of the Department of Computing, for a term of one year, with effect from 1 July 2024.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">This is to succeed our current Head of the Department, Professor Michael Huth, who is taking up a prestigious senior post at a University in Germany.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Professor Russo joined Imperial as a PhD student of the Department of Computing in 1991 and became Research Associate in 1995. She was promoted to Professor of Applied Computational Logic in 2016. Professor Russo has held several senior roles within the Department of Computing, including Director of Postgraduate Research and Deputy Head of the Department since 2020.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Professor Russo\u2019s main research areas are in Computational Logic, Symbolic Machine Learning, Probabilistic and Distributed Inference, and their applications to Intelligent Adaptive Systems, Security, Network Management, Distributed Control Systems for Sensor Networks, and System Biology.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Alessandra Russo has accepted the appointment of Head of the Department of Computing, for a term of one year, with effect from 1 July 2024.\u00a0\u00a0 This is to succeed our current Head of the Department, Professor Michael Huth, who is taking up a prestigious senior post at a University in Germany.\u00a0 Professor Russo joined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1077,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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