Andrew is Innovation Director for the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI, part of the University of Surrey, with experience that spans 30 years in industry, government and academia. Originally trained a physicist, he started an academic life at the Rutherford Appleton Lab before joining Logica at the height of the early AI boom, implementing leading edge AI solutions. A decade later he moved on to become MD of QinetiQ’s Space Division, where early AI techniques were being developed for analysis of satellite imagery, communications and other applications. Andrew subsequently worked as a strategist, specialising in innovation and cyber security, including a secondment to the National Cyber Security Programme which was run out of the UK Cabinet Office, before becoming CGI’s Vice President of cyber security, where AI methods were used for threat detection. Andrew subsequently joined Roke Manor Research as head of R&D, guiding a number of products and services that utilised leading edge AI techniques. Andrew recently returned to academia to help set up Surrey’s new AI Institute, a group that leverages the University’s 35+ years as a pre-eminent academic institute in AI, creating new collaborations across the University and external organisations, focusing on AI research that benefits people and society.
