Nello Cristianini
As of October 2026, Nello Cristianini is a professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bath, where his research areas include machine learning and the philosophy of AI. He was born in 1968 and holds a physics degree from Trieste and a PhD from Bristol. In 2000, he and John Shawe-Taylor published a book on support vector machines, An Introduction to Support Vector Machines and Other Kernel-based Learning Methods. He became a professor of Artificial Intelligence at Bristol in March 2006 and received a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award. His later books were The Shortcut in 2023 and Machina Sapiens in 2025, both published by CRC Press.
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Timeline
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1968
Physics training at Trieste
He is born in 1968. He holds a physics degree from Trieste, an MSc in computational intelligence from the University of London and a PhD from Bristol.
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2000
A book on support vector machines
He and John Shawe-Taylor publish An Introduction to Support Vector Machines and Other Kernel-based Learning Methods in 2000.
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March 2006
A chair in artificial intelligence
He becomes professor of Artificial Intelligence at Bristol in March 2006, and he receives a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award.
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2014
On Thomson Reuters' 2014 list
He appears on Thomson Reuters' June 2014 list of the most influential scientists of the decade, and he holds an ERC Advanced Grant.
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2017
A STOA lecture keynote
He gives the keynote at the Annual STOA Lecture at the European Parliament in 2017.
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2023
Writing The Shortcut
He publishes The Shortcut with CRC Press in 2023.
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2025
Writing Machina Sapiens
In 2025 he publishes Machina Sapiens with CRC Press.
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As of October 2026
Professor at Bath
He is a professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bath, where his research areas include machine learning and the philosophy of AI.
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- Nello Cristianini - Wikipedia
- The Shortcut: Why Intelligent Machines Do Not Think Like Us - 1st Edit
- 2006: Professor Cristianini | News and features | University of Bristol
- DSSS19 - Nello Cristianini
- August: World’s leading scientific minds | News and features | University of Bristol
- Machina Sapiens: How Intelligent Machines Passed the Turing Test - the University of Bath's research portal
- Nello Cristianini - the University of Bath's research portal
- Nello Cristianini – The Conversation