Programme Fellows
AAIP Programme Fellows
Dr Vladislav Nenchev
Organisation: BMW
Job title: Product Owner Motion Planning, Development Driving Experience
Mehran Alidoost Nia
Organisation: University of Tehran, Iran
Title: PhD candidate in software engineering
Rob Ashmore
Organisation: Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), UK
Job title: Dstl Fellow
Read Rob's AAIP blog post, The Importance of Intent.
Dr Alec Banks
Organisation: Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), UK
Job title: Senior Principal Scientist
Professor Dr Simon Burton
Organisation: Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems IKS, Germany
Job title: Research Division Director for Safety
AAIP blog posts:
Dr Jelena Frtunikj
Organisation: Argo AI, Germany
Job title: Towards Safe Perception including Machine Learning for Level 4 Automated Driving
Lydia Gauerhof
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
Dr Mario Gleirscher
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.
Dr Bilal Kaddouh
Organisation: University of Leeds, UK
Job title: Lecturer in Aerial Robotics (Assistant Professor)
Dr Lars Kunze
Organisation: Oxford Robotics Institute (ORI), UK
Job title: Departmental Lecturer in Robotics
Professor Tom Lawton MBE
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.
Professor Farah Magrabi
Organisation: Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Job title: Professor of Biomedical and Health Informatics at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation
Tarek Nakkach
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)
Professor Davy Pissoort
Organisation: KU Leuven, Belgium
Job title: Head of Mechatronics Group (M-Group) and Associate Professor
Dr Roger Rivett
Job title: Independent Consultant
Dr Genaína Rodrigues
Organisation: University of Brasilia, Brazil
Job title: Associate Professor in Computer Science
Simon Smith
Organisation: CACI Limited, UK
Job title: Chief Architect
Dr Mark Sujan
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
Dr Xingyu Zhao
Organisation: University of Liverpool
Job title: Lecturer (Assistant Professor)