Professor Miles Elsden
Director of the Institute for Safe Autonomy

Profile

Biography

Qualifications

BSc Applied Mathematics
PhD Computational Fluid Mechanics
MBA, Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET)

Research interests

Robotics
Connected Autonomous Systems
Transport
AI/ML
Communications
Research Impact
Innovation
Uncertainty
Risk
Decision-Making
Policy
Systems Engineering

Career

I spent my early career as an academic in the UK and EU, including as a Marie Curie Fellow in Germany. I also spent time in industry initially as a software developer in Brussels, more recently working with a US based AI and Cognitive Computing start-up, and as a consultant.

I worked in the government for 10 years, providing science advice in a number of Departments on a range of issues including as Chief Scientist in the UK Department for Transport.