Rate My Professor Luc Moreau

Professor Luc Moreau served as Professor of Computer Science and Head of the Department of Informatics at King’s College London, appointed to the headship from 1 August. Prior to this role, he held the position of Professor of Computer Science and Head of the Web and Internet Science group within the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. An alumnus of the University of Liège in Belgium, he graduated with an Engineering degree in Computer Science followed by a PhD. His academic career has focused on advancing software engineering from design to application, with contributions to standards and methodologies in distributed computing.

Luc Moreau’s research specializations include data provenance, distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, distributed algorithms, explainable artificial intelligence, trust in multiagent systems, provenance-based explanations for automated decision making, and secure AI assistants. He co-chaired the W3C Provenance Working Group, which produced the PROV Recommendations, and initiated the Provenance Challenge series, resulting in the specification of the Open Provenance Model (OPM). Key publications encompass 'The Foundations for Provenance on the Web' (2010, Foundations and Trends in Web Science), 'PROV-DM: The PROV Data Model' (2013, W3C), 'The Open Provenance Model Core Specification (v1.1)' (2011, Future Generation Computer Systems), 'Provenance: An Introduction to PROV' (Springer), and 'Examining the Challenges of Scientific Workflows' (2007, Computer). He has served on the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Internet Technology and was previously Editor-in-Chief of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. His work has significantly impacted the development of provenance infrastructure on the web and trustworthiness in autonomous systems.