Professor David Watt

I am a Professor of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow. I am currently working half-time.

Teaching

I currently teach the following courses:

Programming Languages 3, to third-year undergraduates in Computing Science and Software Engineering;
Algorithms & Data Structures, to postgraduates in Information Technology and Software Development.

Research

My research area is programming languages. I advocate an integrated approach to the design, specification, and implementation of programming languages.

Academic Management

I am the internationalization lead for the School of Computing Science. I have helped to set up joint programmes with Sun Yat-Sen University (China) and KMITL (Thailand), and also a trans-national education programme with SIT (Singapore).

Interests

My extra-curricular interests include chess, cycling, books, science, history, and politics.