Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision at University of Surrey

John Collomosse is a full professor at the University of Surrey, where he is founder and director of DECaDE, the UKRI Research Centre for the Decentralized Digital Economy led by CVSSP at the University of Surrey.

John is concurrently a Senior Principal Scientist and Distinguished Inventor at Adobe Research (San Jose, CA), where he leads Adobe’s research programme for the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) as well as two cross-industry task forces within the C2PA open standards body for media authenticity.

John’s research intersects Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), with focus on media provenance to fight misinformation and online harms, and on improving data integrity and attribution for responsible AI.

John is a Fellow of the IET (FIET), Life Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS), Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts (FRSA), and a Chartered Engineer (CEng). He received his undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Bath in 1997 and 2001. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and Director of the Masters (MSc) programme in Computer Vision, Robotics and Machine Learning. He was a member of the UKRI/EPSRC ICT Strategic Advisory Team (SAT) from 2018–2024.