Impact

Since 2019, the CDT has brought together students, academics and external partners, to work together to generate novel data science and future computing solutions to questions once considered impossible. Find out more about our achievements and impact here.

To date, there are 140 individuals in the community, working together to address real-world challenges through data-driven research in defence and manufacturing. Our impact highlights include the award of 13 PhDs to date, plus 6 pending, from cohorts 1 - 3, registration of 2 patents and 2 spinout companies, the publication of 22 journal and conference papers, and other outputs of note include:

• George Jones was awarded an STFC cross cluster proof of concept grant, and interviewed with Google, Google DeepMind, and Huawei. He closed out an Innovate UK collaborative grant with STFC Harwell scientific computing department, was contracted as a consultant in a spin-out company, and submitted a paper to IEEE TAES journal. 
• Fin Boulton has taken part in the UKAN Thales passive HLA Sonar Detection Tracking Classification Hackathon and presented at the UACE 2025 conference. Fin’s research on acoustic propagation modelling has contributed to the search for MH370. 
• William Jeffcott presented at the British Crystallographic Association in Leeds, presenting a paper on the backbone rigid invariant. His research is being used to identify duplicate entries where protein structures are identical in the Protein Data Bank which is the global public repository where all determined proteins are stored.

Having trained 55 students across 5 cohorts, our focus has now shifted to recruiting students who are aligned to the CDT so they too can benefit from our activities and wider research community.