Mike Fraser

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(born 1975) is a

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. He is Head of Computer Science at the

University of Bristol The University of Bristol is a public university, public research university in Bristol, England. It received its royal charter in 1909, although it can trace its roots to a Merchant Venturers' school founded in 1595 and University College, Br ...

Life and career

Fraser was a student at

University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, England. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. Nottingham's main campus (University Park Campus, Nottingh ...

from 1993 until 1996 where he acquired his bachelor's degree in Computer Science. He also attained a PhD in Computer Science from the same institution during 1997 and 2000. After graduating, he worked as a lecturer at the

from 2001 to 2004, before he moved to Bristol and became a senior lecturer at the

from 2004. In 2012, Fraser became a

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of Human-computer interaction. In 2019, he was made Head of Computer Science at the

University of Bath The University of Bath is a public research university in Bath, England. Bath received its royal charter in 1966 as Bath University of Technology, along with a number of other institutions following the Robbins Report. Like the University ...

, before returning to the

in 2022. Fraser's research is often based around his specialisation in Human-computer interaction. His first PC was an Amstrad CPC 464.

Awards and recognition

Fraser sits on the steering committee of the TEI conference series, was awarded a ‘best paper’ award at ACM CHI 2005, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fraser, Mike 1975 births Living people British computer scientists Academics of the University of Bristol Alumni of the University of Nottingham Academics of the University of Nottingham