Director DECaDEProfessor John Collomosse

Professor John Collomosse is the founder and director of DECaDE, the UKRI Research Centre for the Decentralized Digital Economy led by CVSSP at the University of Surrey. His research intersects Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), with focus on media provenance to fight misinformation and online harms, and on improving data integrity and attribution for responsible AI.

John leads the research programme for Adobe's Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) as well as two cross-industry task forces within the C2PA open standards body for media authenticity. His research has also explored creative forms of visual search and content recommendation, and immersive technologies. He is a chartered engineer and between 2008-2014 was a member of the UKRI science council (EPSRC) advisory team for Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) and UKRI Digital Economy Programme.