Iain Stewart

Biography

I am a Professor in the School of Engineering and Computing Sciences. I read mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford (1980-83) before completing my PhD in mathematics at Queen Mary College, University of London (1983-86). I was then appointed to a Lecturership in the Computing Laboratory, University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1986 before moving to a Lecturership in the Department of Computer Science, University of Wales Swansea in 1992. I was later appointed Senior Lecturer (1994) and then Reader (1995) before becoming Professor of Computer Science at Leicester in 1996. I moved to the Department of Computer Science at Durham as Professor in 2002. I have a number of positions within the mathematics and computer science community which include the following: I am a member of the UK Computing Research Committee (UKCRC), having previously been on the Executive; I am a member of the Research Committee of the BCS Academy of Computing; I am a member of the EPSRC Computing College; I am an Editorial Advisor to the London Mathematical Society Journal of Computation and Mathematics; I am an Editor of the Journal of Discrete Algorithms; and I am an Associate Editor of The Computer Journal. In the past I have been: a Member of Council of the London Mathematical Society; Chair of the Computer Science Committee of the London Mathematical Society; Co-ordinator of the joint EPSRC and London Mathematical Society MathFIT (Mathematics for Information Technology) initiative; President of the British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science (BCTCS); and President of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL).

Research Interest

I have varied research interests including: computational complexity; finite model theory and descriptive complexity; graph theory and algorithms; interconnection networks for parallel and distributed computing; theoretical aspects of artificial intelligence; and group theory.