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Dame Wendy Hall DBE FREng FRS

Dame Wendy Hall, DBE, FRS, FREng, is Regius Professor of Computer Science, Associate Vice President (International Engagement) and 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 Homours List and is a Fellow of Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the ACM. She is a distinguished Fellow of the BCS.


Dame Wendy was co-chair of the UK Government's AI Review, published in October 2017, and was a member of the AI Council. She is currently co-chair of the ACM Publications Board and advises the UK Government, other governments, and various companies around the world. In 2023, she as appointed to the United Nations High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence. Her new book “�, co-authored with Peter Rai, was published by Wiley in September 2026.

Subject groups

  • Engineering and Materials Science

    Computer engineering (including software)

Dame Wendy Hall DBE FREng FRS
Elected 2009
Committees Participated Role
Publishing Board January 2023 - December 2026 Ex-Officio
Editorial Board of Royal Society Open Science January 2022 - December 2026 Editor-in-Chief and Chair
Editorial Board of Royal Society Open Science January 2022 - December 2025 Chair
Sectional Committee 0: Computer sciences November 2018 - October 2021 Member
Data Governance Working Group January 2018 - January 2026 Member
Publishing Board January 2017 - December 2022 Chair
Editorial Board of Proceedings of Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ A December 2016 - December 2019 Member
Data Governance Working Group August 2016 - March 2017 Member
Science, Industry and Translation Committee May 2014 - December 2016 Member
Council December 2013 - November 2016 Member
Milner Award Committee June 2011 - December 2017 Chair
Sectional Committee 4: Engineering and Materials Science December 2010 - November 2013 Member
Hooke Committee January 2010 - December 2012 Member
Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship Selection Panel - A Side January 2007 - December 2009 Member
Editorial Board of Journal of Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Interface February 2004 - December 2009 Member