Mark Girolami
Mark A. Girolami is a British civil engineer, statistician and data engineer. He has held the Sir Kirby Laing Professorship of Civil Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge since 2019.
He has been the chief scientist of the Alan Turing Institute since 2021. He is a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, and winner of a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. Girolami is a founding editor of the journal Data-Centric Engineering, and also served as the program director for data-centric engineering at Turing.
Education
Girolami studied at the University of Glasgow and spent ten years working for IBM as an engineer from 1985 to 1994. After this he undertook, on a part-time basis, a PhD in statistical signal processing whilst working at the University of Paisley.In 2024, the University of the West of Scotland awarded Girolami an honorary doctorate recognising his exceptional achievements in engineering and computing.
Career and research
After his PhD, Girolami held senior positions at the University of Glasgow, and University College London.Before joining the University of Cambridge, Girolami worked at Imperial College London.