Nicholas Robert Jennings FREng FIEEE, FIET, FBCS CEng CITP (born 15 December 1966) is a Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government on National Security and the inaugural Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. He is also an advisor to aerogility and variab.ly.Jennings heads the Agents, Interaction and Complexity (AIC) Group and is an internationally recognised authority in the areas of agent-based computing and intelligent systems.