Simon Wells
Lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University
Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Wells is a research-active computer scientist and lecturer based in Dundee with 14 years of academic and software development experience, blending curriculum leadership with hands-on engineering. He has secured over £129k in research funding, supervised more than 60 students, and authored 60+ peer-reviewed papers on topics spanning argumentation, multi-agent systems, AI, and high-performance computing. His career bridges academia and applied open-source work—extending OMERO for data-intensive healthcare research and building persuasive technologies for sustainable urban transport. Practically minded and multilingual in code (Python, Java, Erlang, C/C++), he also brings uncommon experience designing agent dialogue protocols from his PhD work, which informs both his research and teaching in critical thinking and argumentation.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
A-Level, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, A-Level, Biology, Chemistry, Physics at Sir John Deane's Sixth Form CollegePh.D, Computing, Ph.D, Computing at University of DundeeA-Level, Mathematics, A-Level, Mathematics at Mid-Cheshire CollegeGCSE, Sciences, Math, English Lang., English Lit., Geography, History, French, Art & Design, GCSE, Sciences, Math, English Lang., English Lit., Geography, History, French, Art & Design at The County High School, LeftwichMulti-Agent Systems, Multi-Agent Systems at AgentLink Spring School
Github Skills (34)
kebab-case8
data-structure8
window-manager8
space-partitioning7
algorithms7
ide7
mining7
common-lisp7
completions7
dfa7
data-structures7
macos6
jekyll6
homebrew6
emacs6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
siwells/DGDL
Aug 2012 - Aug 2020
Contributions:33 commits, 3 pushes, 1 issue in 8 years 1 month
Open-Argumentation/SADFace
Jun 2017 - Jan 2021
Contributions:390 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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