Frederic Fol Leymarie

Frederic Fol Leymarie (Ph.D., Brown University, 2003) is Professor of Computing at Goldsmiths since 2004. He works on creativity and AI systems, including robots that can perform with artistic skills similar to expert humans. Frederic has a long-term interest in shape understanding, where he combines knowledge from perception, vision science, AI, the visual arts. At Goldsmiths, he has created Master programs in Computational Arts (2004), and in Computer Games (2008-2015). He teaches AI and computer graphics classes. Outside academia, Frederic leads the consulting activity London Geometry together with Prof. William Latham, a pioneer of generative computer art systems. He is the UK PI for project EACVA: Embodied Agents in Contemporary Visual Art (2023-26).