Wendy Hall

Dame Wendy Hall is Regius Professor of Computer Science and Associate Vice President for International Engagement at the University of Southampton, where she also serves as Executive Director of the Web Science Institute. She is best known as a pioneer in hypermedia research, having developed the Microcosm system in the 1980s before the World Wide Web, and as a co-founder of the Web Science Research Initiative alongside Tim Berners-Lee. She co-chaired the UK government's AI Review in 2017 and was appointed to the United Nations high-level advisory body on artificial intelligence in 2023.