Dr Doug Williams is project director, leading large collaborative and interdisciplinary research projects for BT that address the development of new communication and media applications that can be delivered over broadband.

Doug has led research on the emergence of convergent forms of media including the project NM2 that led to the world first broadcast of ShapeShifting media, in which viewers were given the power to interact with, and hence shape, the emerging narrative of a TV drama in real time. Previously he specialised in optical fibre design, a topic in which he holds a PhD and on which he has published widely.