Matt D’Aloia
Mark Livings
Bill Ford
Tom Allison
Dr Kevin Stickney
Prof. Roberto DeSimone
Roberto has 35+ years expertise in exploiting emerging technologies, especially Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Quantum Technologies (QT), for government and commercial clients. He has a PhD in machine learning (1989) and pursued AI/ML research at world-leading institutes in the UK and US. Since 2010, he has been working at BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, where he has been leading a team of maverick scientists, engineers and consultants that is exploiting these emerging technologies for disruptive business applications for government and commercial clients. He is also working part-time as an Entrepreneur in Residence for quantum engineering at Bristol University, funded by the Royal Society, and a visiting professor of quantum systems engineering at Loughborough University, having been a visiting professor for AI at the UK Defence Academy, Shrivenham.
Prof. Michael Henshaw
Michael Henshaw is Professor of Systems Engineering; he is head of the Systems Division and leads the Engineering Systems of Systems (EsoS) Research Group. His research focuses on integration and management of complex socio-technical systems, with a particular emphasis on the challenges of through-life management of systems and capabilities.
The main research topics studied include modelling of Systems of Systems (SoS), Systems Lifecycles, Network Enabled Capability (NEC), management of knowledge for through-life management (TLM), cyber-security, pilot training, C2, and autonomous robotic systems. Within all these areas there is a strong emphasis on the challenges of interoperability between systems and the importance of including humans and organisations as part of the systems.
Professor Henshaw graduated in applied physics, and his early research focused on laser-plasma interactions, using computational fluid dynamics to investigate various phenomena in applications such as X-ray lasers. He joined British Aerospace (later BAE Systems) as an aerodynamicist and worked for seventeen years in aeronautical engineering tackling problems associated with unsteady aerodynamics (computational and experimental) and, later, multi-disciplinary integration. He was appointed to a chair in Systems Engineering at Loughborough in 2006 to direct the large (£4M) multi-university, multi-disciplinary programme sponsored by EPSRC and BAE Systems, NECTISE, that ran from Nov 2005 – April 2009. He has an international reputation for his work in systems of systems.