Our People
Bristol Digital Futures Institute is a community of University of Bristol academics and external partners with a shared mission: digital innovation for a better future.
- Professor Daniel Neyland, Co-Director
Daniel is a social scientist and Professor of digital futures in the Bristol University Business School. For over 20 years he has worked on collaborative sociotechnical research projects, often working with computer scientists and engineers to come up with new ways of working and thinking.
From studies of the everyday life of algorithms through to research on markets for digital data, he has demonstrated a commitment to challenging taken for granted assumptions regarding: the relationship between problems and solutions; what it means to govern and distribute relations of accountability and responsibility; and how we ought to go about the process of doing research.
- Professor Raul Santos-Rodriguez, Co-Director
Raul is a UKRI Turing AI Fellow and Professor of Data Science and AI and Intelligent Systems at the School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology, University of Bristol. Prior to his current role, he held positions both in the creative technology industry and academia.
An advocate for interdisciplinary collaboration, Raul works across fields to address societal challenges in healthcare and climate science, rethinking the role of AI in complex decision-making, its accountability and transparency. His research interests lie around the foundations of human-centric machine learning, focusing on developing tools for humans to interact with and shape the behaviour of AI systems.
- William Campbell, Senior Research AdministratorWilliam provides administrative support to the institute and its members, including finances, diary management, event support, and governance.
- Adrian K. T. Ng, Technical Expert – Immersive TechnologiesAdrian is responsible for the immersive front-end of the Reality Emulator and the growth of immersive technologies in BDFI. He has a multi-disciplinary background in engineering, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience, and extensive MR project delivery experience across multiple disciplines and technologies.
- Ashley Bligh, Technical Expert – NetworksAshley has been working as a Network Specialist within the UoB IT Network team, where he supported network connectivity across all the university buildings. His responsibilities also included designing, configuring, and deploying new networks, including those at BDFI.