Tom Crick

Professor
Tom Crick
Crick in May 2023
BornJanuary 1981 (age 45)
Oxford, UK
EducationWheatley Park School
Alma materUniversity of Bath (BSc, PhD)
Known forComputing education, artificial intelligence, technology policy, systems engineering
AwardsIET Achievement Medal (2022)
BCS Lovelace Medal (2023)
LSW Hugh Owen Medal (2023)
BSA Honorary Fellow (2024)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Bath
Cardiff Metropolitan University
Swansea University
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
University of Bristol
ThesisSuperoptimisation: Provably Optimal Code Generation using Answer Set Programming (2009)
Websiteresearch-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/tom-crick/

Tom Crick MBE FLSW FAcSS (born January 1981) is a British computer scientist and engineer, a science and technology policymaker, and a senior civil servant. He is Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government's Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and Professor of Digital Society and Policy at the University of Bristol. His work spans national computing education reform, digital and data policy, and the engineering and governance of large-scale AI-enabled systems in public services and government.