Christopher D. Clack is a computer scientist at University College London. He is known for his research on Smart Contracts, especially focusing on Smart Contract Templates and the semantics of smart contracts for high-value financial derivatives. He is Joint Field Chief Editor for the research journal Frontiers in Blockchain.
He assists the development of global standards for the automation of financial derivatives via collaboration with institutions in the financial services sector, and more generally assists the adoption of smart contracts by engaging with the legal profession and contributing to emerging standards. During his career he has also made seminal contributions in other areas such as architectures for parallel functional programming; strictness analysis and abstract machines; financial applications of evolutionary computing; extending evolutionary computing technology with concepts drawn from functional programming; maintaining phenotypic diversity and risk-switching detection in multi-objective systems; and inter-disciplinary work in agent-based simulation. [Learn more]
He also responds to many invitations from external organisations to deliver research, private briefings, focused analysis, and industry events aimed at policymakers and stakeholders. [Learn more]