Michael Worboys (Mike Worboys)Professor

He is a distinguished scientist of the ACM, life member of the London Mathematical Society, and was selected as member of Mapping Science Committee of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Mike has held Honorary Professorships at the Universities of Edinburgh and Melbourne, Australia. Previous positions include Director of the School of Computing and Information Science, University of Maine, USA and Professor of Computer Science at Keele University.

Mike has been a researcher in geographic information science for more than 30 years. His textbook, Geographic Information Systems: A Computing Perspective co-authored by Matt Duckham, has more than 2000 citations (Google Scholar, 2021). He is the author of more than 80 fully refereed research papers and is a founding editor of the Journal of Spatial Information Science. He has served on the editorial boards of most of the major international research journals and has been programme chair of several national and international geographic information science conferences. He has received substantial research funding from the UK, USA, and European funding agencies. He has given keynote addresses to many international conferences.