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Stephen A. Jarvis

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Stephen A. Jarvis
Stephen Jarvis in the Aston Webb building at the University of Birmingham in 2021
Provost and Vice-Principal
University of Birmingham
Assumed office
February 2023
Preceded byTim Jones
Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
University of Birmingham
In office
June 2020 – January 2023
Preceded byAndrew John Schofield
Personal details
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of London
University of Oxford
University of Durham
Scientific career
FieldsComputational Science
InstitutionsUniversity of Birmingham
University of Warwick
University of Oxford

Stephen A. Jarvis is a British computer scientist and academic administrator. He is currently Provost and Vice-Principal at the University of Birmingham. Prior to this he served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University and Head of its College of Engineering and Physical Sciences.[1][2]

Before joining the University of Birmingham he was Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Warwick,[3] where he led industry-academic partnerships in the area of big data[4] and established an international scholarship programme in AI.[5] He also supported the establishment of The Alan Turing Institute, the United Kingdom's national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, where he served as a non-executive Director and Trustee between 2018 and 2020.[6]

He studied at London, Oxford and Durham Universities before taking his first Lectureship at the University of Oxford Computing Laboratory. In 2009 he was awarded a four-year Royal Society Industry Fellowship with Rolls-Royce. He continues to support the development of Rolls-Royce's standard aerodynamic design tool, which underpins the way that Rolls-Royce now designs and builds its turbo-fan engines. This research recently won the award for the best Best Scientific Visualization [7] at the 2022 Supercomputing (SC) Conference, the premier international conference on supercomputing attended by over 10,000 delegates annually.

He became the Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Urban Science [8] in 2014 and co-led the founding of the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) in New York and London. In 2020 he oversaw the trials of the UK's first hydrogen-powered train [9] and research and development programmes with High Speed 2 (HS2).[10] He is currently a non-executive Director at the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC), established in 2010 to bridge the gap between academia and industry and which represents one of the largest public sector investments in UK manufacturing.[11]

References

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  1. ^ "University of Birmingham appoints leading computational scientist as Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of College of Engineering and Physical Sciences". www.perrettlaver.com. Perrett Laver. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  2. ^ "University of Birmingham appoints leading computational scientist". www.birmingham.ac.uk. University of Birmingham. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Movers and Shakers April 2020". www.dixonwalter.co.uk. Dixon Walter. 30 April 2020. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  4. ^ "Bull and Warwick join forces on big data". universitybusiness.co.uk. University Business. 15 May 2014. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  5. ^ "£850,000 grant helps launch AI scholarships". www.thebusinessdesk.com. The Business Desk. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  6. ^ "Professor Stephen Jarvis appointed to the Turing's Board of Trustees". www.turing.ac.uk. The Alan Turing Institute. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  7. ^ "Best Scientific Visualization at the 2022 Supercomputing (SC) Conference". warwick.ac.uk. University of Warwick. 22 November 2022. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
  8. ^ "EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Urban Science and Progress". gtr.ukri.org. UK Research and Innovation. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  9. ^ "UK's First Hydrogen Train Undergoes Preliminary Trials". industryeurope.com. Industry Europe. October 2020. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  10. ^ "HS2 signs landmark R&D agreement". www.pbctoday.co.uk. PCB Today. 17 August 2020. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  11. ^ "The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC)". www.the-mtc.org. MTC. Retrieved 22 November 2022.