Christopher Kenneth Ingle Williams (born 1960) is a professor at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, working in Artificial intelligence, and particularly the areas of Machine learning and Computer vision.

He did a MSc in Water Resources at the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, then worked in Lesotho on low-cost sanitation.

In 1988, he studied at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Toronto under the supervision of Geoffrey Hinton.

Williams has been a Fellow of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) since 2019.

[4] Williams was an organizer of the PASCAL Visual Object Classes (VOC) project (2005–2012) along with Mark Everingham, Luc van Gool, John Winn, and Andrew Zisserman.