Tom Crick

Professor
Tom Crick
Professor Tom Crick in May 2023
BornJanuary 1981 (age 43)
Oxford, UK
EducationWheatley Park School
Alma materUniversity of Bath (BSc, PhD)
AwardsBCS Lovelace Medal (2023)
Hugh Owen Medal (2023)
IET Achievement Medal (2022)
Scientific career
InstitutionsSwansea University
Cardiff Metropolitan University
University of Bath
ThesisSuperoptimisation: Provably Optimal Code Generation using Answer Set Programming (2009)
Websitewww.swansea.ac.uk/staff/thomas.crick/

Tom Crick MBE FLSW FAcSS FBCS FIET (born 1981) is a British interdisciplinary computer scientist. He is Professor of Digital Policy at Swansea University and Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government's Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Crick has led major reforms to the Welsh science and technology curriculum.