David J. C. MacKay Scientist

David John Cameron MacKay, FRS FInstP FICE (born 22 April 1967), is the Regius Professor of Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge and from 2009 to 2014 was Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Before being appointed to the DECC, MacKay was most well known as author of the book Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air. He has an Erdos Number of 2.

Personal facts

Birth date	April 22, 1967
Birth name	David John Cameron MacKay
Birth place	Stoke-on-Trent
Education	California Institute of Technology Trinity College Cambridge
Known for	Dasher (software) Low-density parity-check code

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Scientist

awards	Royal Society Fulbright Program Institute of Physics Institution of Civil Engineers
doctoral advisor	John Hopfield
Field of study	Information theory Machine learning Sustainable energy