Department. He was appointed the UK's first Regius Professor of Computer Science in 2014. From 2010 to 2015, he was the UK Government's first Chief Scientific Advisor for National Security. In 2016, he moved to Imperial College to be the Vice-Provost (Research and Enterprise), as well as a Professor of Artificial Intelligence. In 2021, he was appointed as the 9th Vice-Chancellor and President of Loughborough University. Awards Jennings was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to computer science and national security science. 2007: Int. Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Special Recognition Award for “Intelligent agents: theory and practice” in The Knowledge Engineering Review 2016: IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize (Honourable Mention) for “Theoretical and practical foundations of large-scale agent-based micro-storage in the smart grid” in Journal of AI Research 2016: The Engineer’s “Collaborate to Innovate” Award for the ORCHID project 2018: Int. Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Influential Paper Award for “Developing multiagent systems: the Gaia methodology” in ACM Trans. on Software Engineering and Methodology 2020: BCS Lovelace Medal Fellowships 2019: Fellow City and Guilds of London Institute 2020: Honorary Fellow of the Cybernetics Society 2022: Fellow of the Royal Society Personal life Jennings is married to Jo and they have two children. He is a keen sportsman—playing cricket for Bishops Waltham and managing a Waltham Wolves football team for 10 years References 1966 births Living people Scientists from London Alumni of the University of Exeter Alumni of Queen Mary University of London Academics of the University of Southampton Companions of the Order of the Bath Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Fellows of the British Computer Society Fellows of the Institution of Engineering and Technology Fellow Members of the IEEE Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fellows of the SSAISB Members of Academia Europaea Academics of the Department of Computing, Imperial College London Artificial intelligence researchers English computer scientists British computer scientists People from the Isle of Portland Vice-Chancellors of Loughborough University