Owen Bell

Pronouns: He/him
  • PhD research student
Date of start of studies: 01 January 2023
Supervisors: Dr Dominik Freydenberger and Dr Joel Day
Research areas: Database Theory, Combinatorics on Words, Learning Theory, Finite Model Theory

Biography

Owen graduated with first-class honours from his undergraduate master's degree in Computer Science from Loughborough University in 2022, and won the MSci Finalist Prize for the highest overall mark.

He is now studying for a PhD in theoretical computer science, with particular focus on database theory and combinatorics on words.

He also works as a teaching assistant for several undergraduate modules: Logic for Computer Science, Mathematics for Computer Science, Formal Languages and Theory of Computation, Formal Methods, and Cloud Computing.

Research

Owen's research is on the algorithmic and combinatorial properties of logic on words, which relates practically to the efficient evaluation of information extraction queries on textual data. He is currently working on the learnability of models in database theory.