Dr David Johnson
Associate Professor (Docent), Department of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University.
Ekonomikum (plan 3)
Kyrkogårdsg, 10
751 20 Uppsala
Sweden
I am an Associate Professor (UK eq. Reader) in Information Systems in the Department of Informatics and Media at Uppsala University, Sweden. I also teach in the Department for Continuing Education and am a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford. Previously, I was a Senior Researcher in the Oxford e-Research Centre within the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford working on the EU H2020 PhenoMeNal project (large-scale computing for medical metabolomics); a Research Associate in the Data Science Institute and Department of Computing at Imperial College London; and a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. I received a PhD in Computer Science from the School of Systems Engineering at the University of Reading, UK in 2010 and was supervised by Professor Vassil Alexandrov.
I was born and raised in Hong Kong and once competed (and won a bronze medal) in the World Tenpin Bowling Youth Championship. I am not so good at tenpin bowling these days.
news
| Nov 26, 2019 | Today I gave a talk at the Stiftelsen för rättsinformation (The Trust for Legal Information) conference on Legal Information as a Governing Instrument in the past, present and future. I gave a talk on “A future with data science: Challenges and opportunities”, discussing data science, machine learning, and privacy-by-design approaches to making private data more FAIR, and participated in the panel session alongside the other speakers. |
| Jun 25, 2019 | We have a position open for a PhD student in our department at Uppsala University to work supervised by me, funded by the Department of Informatics and Media in collaboration with the Swedish Management and IT School. The position is on investigating how FAIR data is conceptualized and implemented in the digital economy. For more information, see https://im.uu.se/about-us/work-with-us/?positionId=277530. |
| Apr 22, 2019 | Our paper “Why did you do that?”: Explaining black box models with Inductive Synthesis was presented at the Solving Problems with Uncertainties – SPU 2019 workshop at the ICCS 2019 conference in Faro, Portugal in June, and is now available in Springer’s Procedia Computer Science here. |
| Apr 22, 2019 | Our paper “Why did you do that?”: Explaining black box models with Inductive Synthesis has been made available as a pre-print in the cs.AI section on on arXiv! The final paper will be presented at the Solving Problems with Uncertainties – SPU 2019 workshop at the ICCS 2019 conference in Faro, Portugal in June. Take a look if you’re interested in reading about our approach to Explainable AI (XAI). |
| Mar 11, 2019 | An exciting new professional course has been announced by the University of Oxford’s Department for Continuing Education from myself and Paul Fremantle, on Microservices with the new Ballerina programming language. You can apply to join the course here. |