Posted: 24th July 2025

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Graham Cormode as the Professor of Computer Science. He will take up the post on 1 January 2026 and will hold a Professorial Fellowship at St John's College.

Joining from the University of Warwick, where he is Professor of Computer Science, Professor Cormode's research sits within the 'Data, Knowledge and Action' theme. His research includes privacy and data anonymisation techniques for large, distributed data; algorithms for management, analysis and machine learning on massive data; and scalable computation over distributed and streaming data.

Professor Cormode's work on statistical analysis of data was recognised by the 2017 Adams Prize in Mathematics and as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. He has held positions at leading research centres including the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science at Rutgers, AT&T Labs and Meta.

Professor Leslie Ann Goldberg, Head of the Department of Computer Science, said:
'I'm delighted that Graham Cormode will be joining our department. He is a truly outstanding researcher who has made wide research contributions, broadly across the theme of data. He will be a member of the 'Data, Knowledge, and Action' theme and will be a huge benefit to the department.'

Professor Lady Sue Black, President of St John's, added:
'We very much look forward to welcoming Professor Cormode to Oxford and St John's in the New Year and to his contributions to our academic community.'