Tillman Weyde is a reader in the Department of Computer Science at City, University of London and is a veteran artificial intelligence (AI) researcher. He is the head of the Machine Intelligence and the Media Informatics Research Groups at City. Weyde has worked in the field of AI for more than 25 years and is an award-winning AI researcher, with more than 150 major publications. He holds degrees in mathematics, computer science, and music from the University of Osnabrück and gained his PhD in 2002.