Ann Blandford FHEA is Professor of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) at University College London (UCL).

She worked as a software engineer before pursuing a PhD in artificial intelligence (AI) and education at the Open University supervised by Eileen Scanlon and Mark Elsom-Cook.

[2][7] Blandford previously served as professor at the interaction design centre at Middlesex University from 1995 to 2001.

[citation needed] Blandford has served as professor in human-computer interaction at UCL since 2002, where her research has involved studies of serendipity, leading to a proposal for a new definition of the phenomenon.

[10] In 2016, Blandford became one of the first 12 women to receive a Suffrage Science award for contributions to the field of maths and computing.