Rate My Professor Luc Moreau

Professor Luc Moreau is a Professor in the Department of Informatics at King’s College London, where he previously served as Head of the Department. Appointed Head from 1 August, he oversaw the department's strategic expansion, growing it significantly and facilitating its move to Bush House in 2017. Before joining King’s, Moreau held leadership roles at the University of Southampton’s Department of Electronics and Computer Science, including Head of the Web and Internet Science group, Deputy Head of Department for Research and Enterprise, and lecturer in Computer Science. His contributions have advanced computer science, particularly in distributed systems coordination.

Moreau’s research interests center on data provenance, explainable artificial intelligence, trust in multi-agent systems, and trustworthy autonomous systems. As Principal Investigator, he led major EPSRC-funded initiatives at King’s, including the Trusted Autonomous Systems Hub (2020–2024), SAIS: Secure AI assistantS (2020–2023), PLEAD: Provenance-driven and Legally-grounded Explanations for Automated Decisions (2019–2022), and Provenance-based Explanations for Automated Decision Making (2019). He served as Co-Investigator on Trust in Human-Machine Partnership (2018–2022). Notable publications include “The foundations for provenance on the web” (Foundations and Trends® in Web Science, 2010; 378 citations), “The provenance of electronic data” (Communications of the ACM, 2009), “A typology of explanations to support Explainability-by-Design” (Journal on Responsible Computing, 2025), “Rethinking Explainable AI: Explanations can be Deceiving” (2025), “On Specifying for Trustworthiness” (Communications of the ACM, 2023), and “Formal Specification of Actual Trust in Multiagent Systems” (2024). His pioneering provenance research co-chaired the W3C Provenance Working Group, developed the Open Provenance Model, and influenced regulatory guidance on AI explanations. Moreau is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and Institution of Engineering and Technology. He has edited Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience and served as associate editor for ACM Transactions on Internet Technology.