Nello Cristianini is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bristol.

His current research covers the large scale analysis of media content
(news and social media), using various AI methods, and the social impact of Big Data and AI.
Cristianini is the co-author of two widely known books in machine learning, “An Introduction to Support Vector Machines” and “Kernel Methods for Pattern Analysis” and of a book in bioinformatics “Introduction to Computational Genomics”.
He is also a recipient of the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award and a current holder of a European Research Council Advanced Grant.
Before the University of Bristol, he has been a professor of statistics at the University of California, Davis.