University of Exeter
Hywel is a computational scientist focused on challenges around sustainability and environmental change. He is a faculty member in Computer Science, and affiliated to the Institute for Data Science & Artificial Intelligence and the Global Systems Institute, at University of Exeter. He is a Visiting Fellow at Plymouth Marine Laboratory.
Hywel leads an active research group of postdoctoral fellows and PhD students, with diverse interests in environmental data science. He is Co-Director of the Joint Centre of Excellence in Environmental Intelligence, a collaborative research centre operated by University of Exeter and the UK Met Office. He is also Director of the UKRI CDT in Environmental Intelligence and leads the Environmental Intelligence Research Network at Exeter. He teaches courses and supervises student projects in data science applied to the environment, and has been programme lead for a number of postgraduate programmes in data science. He has published >80 research papers in leading outlets (see Google Scholar here). His research has received substantial funding from UKRI (EPSRC, ESRC, NERC), HEFCE, Leverhulme Trust, Children’s Investment Facilitation Fund, as well as several commercial and philanthropic sponsors.
