Professor Richard Mitchell

Email:
r.j.mitchell@reading.ac.uk
Job title:
Professor of Cybernetics

Responsibilities:

Assessment Lead

School Director of Technology Enhanced Learning

Office

Room 135

Building location

Polly Vacher

Areas of interest

Professor Mitchell's current interests include:

Cybernetics
Mobile robots
Artificial intelligence
Control engineering
Technology enhanced learning
Gaia theory

These areas are reflected in the FutureLearn Open Online Course (OOC) Begin Robotics.

Teaching

Applications of Computer Science, including artificial intelligence, robotics and virtual reality
Neural Networks
Java
Virtual Reality
Gaia Theory.

Research projects

Professor Mitchell has been involved in research and industry projects worth nearly £2m, many of these being Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) projects.

Background

Professor Mitchell came to Reading in 1977 as an undergraduate. He was made Professor of Cybernetics in August 2015.

Awards and honours

In 2011, Professor Mitchell was awarded a University Teaching Fellowship for his contribution to Teaching and Learning across the University. He was made Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) in 2014. Professor Mitchell was academic supervisor for the KTP with Red-Whale which was awarded the Best KTP in the UK, Sep 2021.

Websites/blogs

See his personal website for more information. You can also find him on Google Scholar, ResearchGate and LinkedIn.

Selected publications

Professor Mitchell has over 120 publications, including four books and a specially written text for a custom book on cybernetics.