Nicolas Pugeault

Dr. Nicolas Pugeault is a Reader in Computing Science at the University of Glasgow's School of Computing. He holds a PhD from the University of Göttingen and has held roles including Postdoc at the University of Surrey and Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Denmark. His research focuses on cognitive vision, machine learning, and visual attention in complex control tasks. He has led projects like the EPSRC-funded DEVA grant and collaborated with institutions like the Alan Turing Institute.

Education: Engineer degree from ESIEA Paris, MSc in Computational Intelligence from Plymouth, PhD from Göttingen. Research interests include human vision insights, visual attention modeling, and contextual scene understanding. Awards include the Alan Turing Institute Fellowship (2018–2020).

Publications span anomaly detection in medical imaging, contextual object detection, and autonomous driving. His work integrates AI with robotics and environmental applications, such as weather forecasting and plankton analysis. He supervises a diverse cohort of PhD students across vision, robotics, and machine learning.

Grants include leadership on EPSRC and InnovateUK projects. Teaching includes modules on Deep Learning and Data Science. His labs and teams contribute to advancements in cognitive vision systems and AI-driven solutions for real-world challenges.