Research
Big Data and Autonomous Systems
Big Data is the use of distributed computational resources (i.e., big computers) to tackle problems that involve too much data to fit on a single computer or data arriving at too high a rate for a single computer to ingest and/or process. Frameworks (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Storm, MPI, OpenMP) exist to handle some of these problems. Research is focused on solving problems that such frameworks alone do not address. Typically such problems involve processing ambiguous, incomplete and conflicting data to extract information pertinent to human decision making.
Autonomous Systems are systems that ambiguous, incomplete and conflicting data to extract information pertinent to automated decision making (e.g., by a robot). From an algorithmic perspective, the distinction between Big Data and Autonomous Systems relates to who makes the decision.
Bayesian Statistics (including Numerical solution methodologies)
Bayesian statistics is a powerful mathematical approach that uses an explicit articulation of prior knowledge to turn data into the information needed for decision making. The decisions can be made by people (e.g., in the context of Big Data) or by machines (e.g., in the context of Autonomous Systems). The focus of Bayesian statistics is primarily on articulating experts' understanding in a way that allows statistics to be used to describe and propagate uncertainty.
Often the mathematics involved in making Bayesian statistics a reality demands the use of Monte Carlo simulation. Such "numerical methods" (e.g., Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), particle filters and Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) samplers) are widespread. Research focuses on efficient simulation, particularly in challenging scenarios (e.g., involving parameters that are high-dimensional).
Tracking and Data Fusion
Tracking is the task of combing information in the context of an incoming data stream relating to each of many objects (e.g., aircraft observed by a radar). Data fusion involves combining information in the context of data from multiple sensors. Both demand careful application of Bayesian statistics. Research focuses particularly on the use of particle filters, a high performance algorithm that has been demonstrated to be a very effective way of extracting pertinent information in the context of tracking and data fusion problems.
Research grants
Manifold Embedding for X-ray Image Object Recognition
HOME OFFICE (UK)
November 2016 - March 2019
Fighting International Internet Paedophilia – Phase Two.
HOME OFFICE (UK)
April 2015 - March 2017
Ways of Being in a Digital Age: A Systematic Review
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
August 2016 - October 2017
Multi source automated NSIF generation.
EADS INNOVATION WORKS UK
March 2014 - September 2017
WEB-RADR
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
September 2014 - August 2017
Bayesian Analysis of Competing Cyber Hypotheses
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2014 - October 2017
PDRA Statistical Analysis
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
January 2019 - January 2023
Navigation Simulation Study – Response to ITT Technical Proposal
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
March 2019 - December 2021
NIHR ARC 2 national social care implementation projects
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK), LIVERPOOL CLINICAL COMMISSIONING GROUP (UK)
October 2019 - January 2029
Improved Conjuction Analysis (ICA)
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
October 2018 - September 2022
Finding MH370
OCEAN INFINITY (USA)
May 2019 - February 2020
Test Coverage Metrics for AI – v2.0
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
October 2019 - March 2021
DynAIRx: Artificial Intelligence for Multiple Long-Term Conditions (AIM)
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)
September 2022 - August 2026
GroundsWell: Community-engaged and Data-informed Systems Transformation of Urban Green and Blue Space for Population Health
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2021 - September 2026
SERAPIS Lo1 Task 2
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
January 2021 - October 2021
Safety Assurance for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
October 2020 - October 2022
Efficient analysis of solid state characterisation data in the autonomous materials laboratory
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER (UK)
December 2021 - March 2022
Track Analytics for Quantifying Slavery at Sea
THE ALAN TURING INSTITUTE (UK) (INNOVATION)
February 2021 - April 2021
Robust Orbit Determination for Space Debris - T811-701SD
EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY (FRANCE)
September 2022 - February 2025
Material ID Algorithm for X-Ray Diffraction
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
August 2020 - March 2021
Re-Liv-E
DEPARTMENT FOR CULTURE, MEDIA & SPORT (UK)
April 2021 - June 2021
Optimal Interventions
THE ALAN TURING INSTITUTE (UK) (INNOVATION)
July 2022 - March 2023
Goal Decomposition and Information Theory (U86)
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
April 2022 - December 2024
Reactive ISR (U74)
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
February 2022 - April 2023
A multi-static radar network airborne early warning system
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
October 2021 - July 2024
Multi-Output Gaussian Processes for Modelling Historic and Anticipated Cyber Risk
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
October 2021 - March 2022
Tracking for Sonar Contacts
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
June 2025 - August 2025
NON-DESTRUCTIVE ON-ORBIT DETECTION OF MM-SIZE SPACE DEBRIS USING BEAMED MICROWAVE ENERGY
EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY (FRANCE)
December 2025 - November 2027
Stochastic Modelling of Pallet Movement: Build Phase
BRAMBLES INVESTMENT LTD (UK)
June 2025 - July 2027
Combination Antibiotic Accelerator
WELLCOME TRUST (UK)
December 2025 - November 2030
Towards Trustworthy AI: Benchmarking, Validation, and Human Expertise
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2025 - September 2026
Statistically-sound Learning of EW Dynamics for Improved Detection in Congested Environments (SLEW-DID-CE)
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
August 2024 - November 2025
Sensor Fusion – Associate Optronics with Sonar (FASTER)
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
January 2023 - March 2023
Support to Infectious Diseases Team
UK HEALTH SECURITY AGENCY - UKHSA (UK)
November 2023 - May 2024
Test & Simulation Environment Support (U59)
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
January 2023 - March 2023
Target Enhancement – Exploit AIS (FASTER)
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
January 2023 - March 2023
Testing and Evaluation -Check Status Against AIS (FASTER)
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
January 2023 - March 2023
Labelling for Wintermute 2.
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
December 2024 - March 2025
Smart Track Management
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
January 2025 - March 2025
Wind Tunnel Experiment and Simulations for Plume Dispersion
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
November 2023 - May 2024
Sequential Monte Carlo Samplers for Equation of State Uncertainty Quantification
ATOMIC WEAPONS ESTABLISHMENT
October 2024 - September 2028
Support toward a general theory of sensor deception
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
October 2022 - March 2023
How can AI be applied to predict the severity of an infectious disease?
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
April 2023 - April 2026
Royal Academy of Engineering: Research Chair in Information Fusion
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
September 2024 - September 2029
: Service Orchestration (U87)
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
October 2022 - December 2024
Data Accelerator Project (System P & AMR-X)
NHS CHESHIRE AND MERSEYSIDE ICB (UK)
December 2023 - October 2027
Bright Corus WP5.3 (C60)
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
July 2023 - March 2025
Bearings-only target motion analysis (TMA)
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
March 2024 - May 2024
Narrowband Processing and TMA
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
September 2024 - February 2025
FASTER TMA Enhancements
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
September 2024 - February 2025
MIDGARD Phase 2.
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
July 2022 - August 2023
Coherence-Before-Positioning: Integrated RF and PNT.
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE (UK)
July 2022 - November 2023
Stone Soup - Software infrastructure for tracking and state estimation in orbital scenarios
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
July 2023 - September 2024
Stone Soup Algorithms (C70)
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
February 2023 - March 2024
Bright Corvus WP4.1 Support to GMV
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
September 2023 - August 2024
Maximisation of Sensitivity over Long Timelines for Resolving Unresolved Artefacts of Threats (MoSoLT-RUAT)
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
April 2024 - July 2025
A multi-static radar network airborne early warning
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
August 2024 - November 2025
U122: Support to TTCP AI Strategic Challenge
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
August 2023 - January 2025
Meta-Analysis
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
July 2017 - February 2020
iCASE Studentship
UNILEVER PLC (UK)
October 2018 - September 2022
iCASE Studentship
IBM LIMITED PARTNERSHIP (UK)
October 2018 - April 2023
Mapping and identifying modern slavery vehicular activity: A proof-of-concept study
N8 RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP (UK)
May 2018 - July 2019
Samplers for Nuclear Security
AWE MANAGEMENT LTD (UK)
October 2017 - September 2022
Using Machine Lerning and AI to explore systems for costing and managing Mobility as a service
INNOVATE UK (UK)
August 2017 - July 2018
ITT for Test Metrics for Artificial Intelligence
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
May 2018 - March 2020
EPSRC iCASE Studentship
SCHLUMBERGER LTD (USA)
November 2016 - January 2021
Big Hypotheses: A Fully Parallelised Bayesian Inference Solution
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
April 2018 - September 2024
Future Space Populations
ROKE MANOR RESEARCH LIMITED (UK)
April 2019 - July 2019
Space Situational Awareness: SSA Collisional Threat (Task 2)
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
March 2018 - March 2019
Space Situational Awareness: SSA Sensor Optimisation (Task 3)
DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (UK)
March 2018 - February 2019
AVERT - AI-based Virtual Environment for Risk Tracking in mental health
INNOVATE UK (UK)
August 2018 - October 2020
ALEAD - Artificial Learning Environments for Autonomous Driving
INNOVATE UK (UK)
June 2018 - October 2021