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 (38)
dfa8
kebab-case8
partitioning8
mining8
window-manager8
ruby7
linux7
tiling7
homebrew7
macos7
data-structures6
jekyll6
completions6
common-lisp6
lda6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
siwells/missing
Nov 2020 - Mar 2022
Contributions:16 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
siwells/DGDL
Aug 2012 - Aug 2020
Contributions:33 commits, 3 pushes, 1 issue in 8 years 1 month
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