Programme Fellows
Contribute to the strategic development of the Programme by applying to become a Programme Fellow. We welcome applicants from industry, academia, and regulatory organisations.
Our funding will support reasonable travel, accommodation and subsistence expenses for visiting fellows to take up a one-month residency at the University of York.
The other thing that worked really well was the concept of the Programme Fellows, because it allowed people like me to come from industry and feel somehow intimately involved as part of the team. Basically, they've turned the usual model on its head. For me, I'd normally be paying the university to come and do work for me. It was a completely different type of approach and it’s been successful.
Prof. Dr. Simon Burton - Research Division Director, Fraunhofer IKS
Current Programme Fellows
Organisation: BMW
Job title: Product Owner Motion Planning, Development Driving Experience
Organisation: University of Tehran, Iran
Title: PhD candidate in software engineering
Organisation: Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), UK
Job title: Dstl Fellow
Read Rob's AAIP blog post, The Importance of Intent.
Organisation: Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), UK
Job title: Senior Principal Scientist
Organisation: Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems IKS, Germany
Job title: Research Division Director for Safety
AAIP blog posts:
Organisation: Argo AI, Germany
Job title: Towards Safe Perception including Machine Learning for Level 4 Automated Driving
Organisation: Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany
Job title: Research engineer
Research papers linked to AAIP Fellowship
Blog post: Data suitability - Data that reflects the intended functionality
Organisation: University of Bremen
Job title: Postdoc in Verification of Robots and Autonomous Systems
Mario Gleirscher is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Bremen, Germany. He received the PhD and MSc degrees in Computer Science, with a minor in Mathematics, from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. He has a Foundation Degree in mechanical engineering with a focus on production engineering and collected several years of practical experience as a consultant, method engineer, and software developer. In his research, he applies formal methods to the analysis, verification, and synthesis of controllers for cyber-physical, autonomous, and robotic systems. For this research, he was awarded a Fellowship at the University of York, UK, funded by the German Research Foundation.
Organisation: University of Leeds, UK
Job title: Lecturer in Aerial Robotics (Assistant Professor)
Organisation: Oxford Robotics Institute (ORI), UK
Job title: Departmental Lecturer in Robotics
Organisation: Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job title: Consultant Anaesthesia and Intensive Care and Head of Clinical Artificial Intelligence
Recent research papers with AAIP team:
- Jia, Y., Kaul, C., Lawton, T., Murray-Smith, R., and Habli, I. "Prediction of weaning from mechanical ventilation using convolutional neural networks" in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
- Jia, Y., Lawton, T., Burden, J., McDermid, J., and Habli, I. "Safety-Driven Design of Machine Learning for Sepsis Treatment" in Journal of Biomedical Informatics, May 2021.
- Habli, I., Alexander, R., Hawkins, R., Sujan, M., McDermid, J., Picardi, C., and Lawton, T. "Enhancing COVID-19 decision making by creating an assurance case for epidemiological models", in BMJ Health and Care Informatics, September 2020.
Organisation: Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Job title: Professor of Biomedical and Health Informatics at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation
Organisation: Kyndryl, United Arab Emirates
Job title: General Counsel Middle East, Africa and Turkey
Blog posts on the liability of robotic and autonomous systems:
- Liability of autonomous systems under the UAE Civil Code
- Available remedies for injury or damage caused by autonomous systems
- A comparison with other regimes
- Recommendations for law, policy and ethics of AI for the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Organisation: KU Leuven, Belgium
Job title: Head of Mechatronics Group (M-Group) and Associate Professor
Job title: Independent Consultant
Organisation: University of Brasilia, Brazil
Job title: Associate Professor in Computer Science
Organisation: CACI Limited, UK
Job title: Chief Architect
Organisation: Human Reliability Associates and Warwick Medical School
Job title: Senior Safety Consultant and Associate Professor of Patient Safety
Research papers linked to AAIP Fellowship and SAM demonstrator project
Information on SAM demonstrator project
Information on human factors in AI demonstrator project
Organisation: University of Liverpool
Job title: Lecturer (Assistant Professor)