Nicholas Robert Jennings is a British computer scientist who was appointed Vice-Chancellor and President of Loughborough University in 2021.

[citation needed] His systems have been used to save lives in the aftermath of disasters, to win Olympic medals for Team GB, and to monitor the impact of climate change on glaciers.

[14] In undertaking this research, he has attracted grant income of £33M, published more than 700 articles (with over 480 co-authors[15]) and graduated over 50 PhD students (including two winners and one runner-up of the British Computer Society (BCS)/CPHC Distinguished Dissertation Award.

[18] From 1988 he was at Queen Mary, University of London, where he was a PhD student, lecturer, reader and professor.

[19] In 2016, he moved to Imperial College to be the Vice-Provost (Research and Enterprise),[20] as well as a Professor of Artificial Intelligence.