Course team

The full list of people teaching and supporting FDS are on the Course Contacts page in Learn. Here we introduce the course lecturers and teaching assistants.

David Sterratt is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Informatics, with research interests in computational neuroscience - understanding how parts of the brain and the central nervous system work by modelling the physics and biochemistry of cells and tissue. He is co-author of a textbook on computational neuroscience and maintains a number of R packages. In his spare time he helps to run a community news website, and listens to the excellent BBC More or Less programme to keep up to date with data science in the news.

Kobi Gal is a Reader in the School of informatics. He is interested in all that is Artificial Intelligence for the social good, especially in the design of intelligent tools to help students learn and teachers to understand and support their learning. He loves hill-running and running in Scotland.

Bobby Ikonomov is a University Tutor in the School of Informatics. He is interested in research surrounding computer science education, and runs student projects that inovolve creating educational or "serious" games (i.e. computer games that are meant to teach). Other interests are uses of Generative AI, computational neuroscience, and cognitive science. He enjoys board games and music.