Impact
Since 2019, the goal of the CDT has been to develop future leaders in distributed algorithms, capitalising on future computing systems, to help move towards a data-driven future. Have we achieved that? What has our impact been?
To date, there is a total of 140 individuals in the community, working together to address real-world challenges through data-driven research in defence and manufacturing.
The CDT PhD students and partners benefit from access to a wider community of experts from the Signal Processing Group. Both groups are led by Professor Simon Maskell, who, with the help of his academic colleagues, has secured a multi-million pound research portfolio on topics such as:
- Big Data and Autonomous Systems
- Bayesian Statistics
- Tracking and Data Fusion
- Quantum Technologies
- Image Processing
- Guidance and navigation.
The CDT is no longer recruiting new cohorts; across its five intakes it successfully recruited 55 students in total and there are currently 7 aligned PhD students. The majority of students from cohorts 1 and 2 have been awarded their PhDs and cohort 3 have begun submitting their theses. Projects have resulted in 2 patents, 22 journal and conference publications, and far reaching work ranging from enhancing global safety by countering threats such as organised crime, to improving the development and delivery of high-performance products and services by leveraging data-driven optimisation and high-performance computing to boost industrial efficiency.
Over the lifetime of the CDT we worked with a total of 32 partners, guiding our PhD researchers to tackle pressing challenges in both the defence and manufacturing sectors. We have facilitated 30 placements so far.
Research
The CDT is part of the Signal Processing Group led by Simon Maskell, Professor of Autonomous Systems.
Case studies
Where we're making a difference.
PhDs
What are they doing now?
