Paolo Missier
Director, The Institute For Data And AI At
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaolo Missier is a seasoned academic leader and data scientist who directs the Institute for Data and AI at the University of Birmingham and holds a professorship in Computer and Data Science. With a career spanning industry research at Bellcore/Telcordia to senior academic roles at Newcastle and Manchester, he has authored over 170 publications across data provenance, quality, knowledge representation and data-intensive workflows. His work bridges foundational research and practical data engineering—teaching scalable distributed architectures while contributing applied machine learning and health data science solutions. A former Alan Turing Institute Fellow and long-serving senior associate editor for ACM JDIQ, he combines rigorous scholarship with institution-building experience. Less obvious: his trajectory started in telecoms R&D in the 1990s and evolved into a distinctive focus on reproducible, provenance-aware data infrastructures that support large-scale scientific analytics.
13 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at The University of ManchesterB.Sc., M.Sc., Informatics, B.Sc., M.Sc., Informatics at Universita' di Udine, ItalyM.Sc., Computer Science, M.Sc., Computer Science at University of Houston-Victoria
Italian, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
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design-documents1
reproducible-research1
pytorch1
machine-learning1
deep-learning1
semantics1
Github contributions (5)
PaoloMissier/CSC8101-2017-18-Coursework
Feb 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 release, 38 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year
data-analyticsanalyticsnewcastlenewcastle-universitybig-data
PaoloMissier/Twitter-activists-paper
Nov 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:83 pushes, 66 branches in 4 months
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