Rich Williams is is the head of the computational ecology and environmental science group at Microsoft Research, Cambridge. Rich was educated as an engineer and physical scientist, and has a PhD in physical oceanography. Before coming to Microsoft Research in 2006, Rich worked as a freelance software developer and scientist. His research focuses on understanding ecosystems as complex networks and on the robustness of the dynamical systems supported by those networks.
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