The Inaugural Lecture of Professor James Hetherington
The Inaugural Lecture of Professor James Hetherington: Engineering Computational Science - April 2026.
About James Hetherington’s Inaugural Lecture
Professor Hetherington reviews his journey in computational science: the use of data, software and compute-intensive methods and tools in science and scholarship.
He focuses on computational science as an engineering discipline, addressing questions of reliability and trustworthiness in simulation and modelling, and touches on the emerging impact of generative artificial intelligence on this field.
About James Hetherington
James is Professor of Computational Science and Director of UCL’s Advanced Research Computing Centre. The Centre for Advanced Research Computing is both a professional services centre providing the supercomputers, data, software, and staff scientists and engineers that enable digital transformation in research across the university, and an academic research and teaching institution in the methods of digital scholarship.
He is also joint Pro-Vice Provost for the Data Empowered Societies grand challenge at UCL, and is particularly interested in the technical and sociotechnical methods that ensure data and compute intensive research is trustworthy. He was previously Director of Research Engineering at the Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence. He was chief data science advisor to the joint biosecurity centre during the coronavirus pandemic.
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