Prof. Tao Cheng
- Professor of Geoinformatics
- Dept of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering
- Faculty of Engineering Science
Tao Cheng is a Professor in GeoInformatics, director of SpaceTimeLab
and the Course Director of MSc in GIS. She is the Principal Investigator of the Crime, Policing and Citizenship project. She has studied and lectured in China, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, France and the UK. She has broad knowledge and experience in Geographic Information Sciences (GISc), from data acquisition, to information processing, management and analysis, with applications in environmental monitoring, natural resource management, health, transport and crime studies. She has over 140 publications and is a past recipient of the U. V. Helava Award for the best paper in the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. She is also a visiting professor at Wuhan University and at the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Science.
She has been the Departmental Equal Opportunity Liaison Officer (DEOLO) since 2006, and led the departmental successful bid for the Athena SWAN Silver Award in 2009, which recognises and celebrates good employment practice for women working in science, engineering and technology (SET) in higher education and research.
Prof. John Shawe-Taylor
- Professor of Computational Statistics and Machine Learning
- Head of UCL Computer Science
- Dept of Computer Science
- Faculty of Engineering Science
John S Shawe-Taylor is a professor at University College London (UK) where he is the Head of the Department of Computer Science. His main research area is Statistical Learning Theory, but his contributions range from Neural Networks, to Machine Learning, to Graph Theory. He is a co-investigator of the Crime, Policing and Citizenship project.
John Shawe-Taylor obtained a PhD in Mathematics at Royal Holloway, University of London in 1986. He subsequently completed an MSc in the Foundations of Advanced Information Technology at Imperial College. He was promoted to Professor of Computing Science in 1996. He has published over 150 research papers. He moved to the University of Southampton in 2003 to lead the ISIS research group. He has coordinated a number of European wide projects investigating the theory and practice of Machine Learning, including the NeuroCOLT projects. He is currently the scientific coordinator of a Framework VI Network of Excellence in Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling and Computational Learning (PASCAL) involving 57 partners. He was previously the Director of the Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML) at UCL.
Prof. Kate Bowers
- Professor of Crime Science
- Dept of Security and Crime Science
- Faculty of Engineering Science
Kate Bowers is a Professor in Crime Science at the UCL Department of Security and Crime Science. She is a co-investigator of the Crime, Policing and Citizenship project. Kate has worked in the field of crime science for almost 20 years, with research interests focusing on the use of quantitative methods in crime analysis and crime prevention. She has published 70 papers and book chapters in criminology and in journals such as Criminology, the Journal of Quantitative Criminology and the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. She has guest edited a special issue of Crime Prevention Studies and co-edited a book on Crime Mapping. She serves on a number of journal editorial boards, and she has number of external appointments such as academic expert for the Crime and Policing Group in the Home Office and expert reviewer for a project run by the US Office of the Assistant Attorney General. Her work has been funded by grants from the Home Office, the US Department of Justice the Police, the Department for Education and Skills, and UK research councils such as the ESRC and AHRC.
Prof. Paul Longley
- Professor of Geographic Information Science
- Dept of Geography
- Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences
Paul Longley (B.Sc., Ph.D., D.Sc., AcSS) is Professor of Geographic Information Science at University College London, UK. He is a co-investigator of the Crime, Policing and Citizenship project. His publications include 14 books and more than 125 refereed journal articles and contributions to edited collections. He has held over 40 research grants and has supervised more than 35 Ph.D. students (most funded by research councils). He is a co-editor of the journal Environment and Planning B and a member of five other editorial boards. He has held ten externally-funded visiting appointments and given over 150 conference presentations and external seminars. He teaches Geographic Information Systems and Science and is a co-author of the best-selling book of that name.