Institute Seminar Series: Tackling the Challenge of Sustainability Issues in AI

Biography

I am a business leader, strategist and technologist with experience spanning 30 years in industry, government and academia. Following completion of my PhD in laser-generated plasmas, I worked at the Rutherford Appleton Lab in a variety of areas including x-ray lasers and inertial confinement fusion, working with international labs such as the Naval Research Lab, the Ecole Polytechnique and others. I subsequently moved to industry, joining Logica to lead a group specialising in signal and image processing, including early AI systems, progressing to Operations Director of the Space & Defence Division before joining space consultancy Esys, subsequently working as MD of QinetiQ’s Space Division. Focusing on security technologies, I joined Charteris, then DS&S, both providing strategic advice to government in the fields of innovation and cyber security. Seconded to the Office of Cyber Security and Information Assurance in the Cabinet Office, I authored the first UK cyber export strategy and contributed to new export controls for cyber. I then joined CGI as Vice President of a new UK cyber business and after several successful years, joined Roke Manor Research as their Innovation Director. Coming full circle back to academia, I have now taken on the role of Director of Innovation and Partnerships development for the new Surrey Institute of People-Centred Artificial Intelligence at the University of Surrey. I also act as advisor to TechUK's Management, Finance and Performance Board and NatWest Group’s Technology Advisory Board.

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