John Domingue

John Domingue first joined the OU in the 1980s as a PhD student within an AI lab in the Psychology Department - the goal of his PhD was to build an AI Tutor to teach AI programming. In the 1980s and 1990s he taught AI on several OU courses through summer schools and as an OU Tutor.

Having joined the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) when it was setup as a technology focused R&D in 1995, he now with the holds the position of Professor of Computer Science there and served as KMi Director from 2015 to 2022. He has contributed over 240 refereed articles in fields such as semantics, AI, the Web, distributed ledgers, and eLearning and is the President of STI International, an organization specializing in semantics and AI and responsible for the ESWC conference series.

From 2017 to 2021, he led the first of five themes on University Learners for the £40M Institute of Coding, an initiative aimed at increasing the number and diversity of computing graduates in the UK while strengthening the connection between university teaching and corporate training. Between 2022 and 2023, Prof. Domingue spearheaded a project to develop a smart national educational content platform that incorporated cutting-edge AI techniques to support further education educators. Since 2023, he has been at the forefront of examining the impact of Generative AI (such as ChatGPT) on higher education.

Prof. Domingue has delivered numerous talks on his work, including appearances at the Royal Institution in 2018, TEDx, and featured in THE Campus on interdisciplinary research teams. In 2019, he was inducted as a Fellow of the British Blockchain Association, and in 2020, he became an Honorary Professor at Amity University.

To learn more about his work, visit kmi.open.ac.uk/people/domingue or follow him on Twitter: @johndmk.