Dave Cliff

Professor Dave Cliff is a faculty member at the University of Bristol, affiliated with the School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology and the Intelligent Systems Laboratory. His career spans academia and industry, including roles at MIT, University of Sussex, and Deutsche Bank. He specializes in complex adaptive systems and automated trading systems, with significant contributions to evolutionary robotics, market mechanism design, and large-scale socio-technical systems.

• Academic Director for TQC at University of Bristol (since 2007)
• Director of LSCITS Initiative (2005-2014)
• Consulting for UK Government Foresight unit and Futurelab

His research explores the intersection of artificial intelligence, complex systems, and computational modeling, focusing on evolutionary dynamics in biological systems and algorithmic trading in financial markets. Recent publications analyze species coexistence stability through spatial cyclic games and develop multi-agent stock exchange simulators for arbitrage studies.

Scientific Recognition:

• Delivered Isambard Kingdom Brunel Award Lecture (1993)
• BBC documentary 'The Joy of Logic' (2013, Grierson Award-nominated)

Cliff actively engages in public science communication, working with GCSE Science Live and Maths Inspiration to promote STEM to students. His expertise in automated trading was validated by IBM researchers in 2001 when his 'ZIP' algorithm outperformed human traders.