STEM Faculty

John Domingue holds a position of Professor of Computer Science, at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), the Open University’s technology research and innovation centre. He also serves as Vice President of the Semantic Web Science Association, the global body overseeing research into Knowledge Graphs and AI. With a career including serving as KMi Director from 2015 to 2022, John has contributed 250 refereed articles in fields such as semantics, AI, the Web, distributed ledgers, and eLearning.

From 2017 to 2021, he led the first of five themes, on University Learners, for the £40M Institute of Coding, an initiative aimed at increasing the number and diversity of computing graduates in the UK while strengthening the connection between university teaching and corporate training. Between 2022 and 2023, John spearheaded a project to develop a smart national educational content platform that incorporated cutting-edge AI techniques to support further education educators. Since the beginning of 2023, he has been at the forefront of examining the impact of Generative AI on higher education including a UKRI funded project (SAGE-RAI) with the Open Data Institute and research on an AI Digital Assistant to support students, and an AI Module Writing Assistant to support the creation of educational materials.

John has also worked extensively on how distributed ledgers and blockchains can support academic and health credentialing in a decentralised fashion.

John has delivered numerous talks on his work, including appearances at the Royal Institution in 2018, TEDx, and featured in THE Campus on interdisciplinary research teams. In 2019, he was inducted as a Fellow of the British Blockchain Association, and in 2020, he became an Honorary Professor at Amity University.