Tony Clark
Pro Vice Chancellor And Executive Dean Of College Of Engineering And Physical Sciences at Aston University
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTony Clark is a senior academic leader and software engineering researcher who blends industrial AI research experience from Marconi with decades of university teaching, departmental leadership, and college-wide strategic roles. He co-founded Xactium Ltd. to commercialize software modelling tools developed at King's College London, delivering solutions to major clients including BAES, BT and CitiBank. His academic career spans programming languages and software engineering research, progressing through professorships and head-of-department roles to senior executive leadership at Aston University, where he now oversees the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences. Known for translating research into practical industry impact, he has steered curriculum, research partnerships and civic engagement to align with long-term institutional strategy. Having pursued a part-time PhD while building a varied career, he brings a pragmatic, entrepreneurially minded approach to academia and technology transfer. Based in England, he combines hands-on commercial product experience with deep governance and educational leadership.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
PhD (Part Time), Computer Science, PhD (Part Time), Computer Science at Queen Mary University of LondonProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
TonyClark/ESL
Jul 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:24 commits, 361 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
TonyClark/XPL
Jan 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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