Funded Research Projects

 

Current:

• Principal Investigator (PI), ELSA: European Lighthouse for Safe and secure AI, 2022-2025, EC, 10M Euro (400K for Lancaster)

• Principal Investigator (PI), Towards explainable AI for Earth Observation (AI4EO): a new frontier to gain trust into the AI, 2021-2024, 180K Euro, ESA (European Space Agency)

• co-I, £3M EPSRC funded project (EP/V026763/1, 2021-2025) Trustworthy Autonomous Systems - Security Node. This project is a collaboration with Cranfield University (£1.88M for Lancaster), partnering with BAE Systems, Airbus, Raytheon, Thales, UK Coast Guard, NATO, EC, Carnegie Melon University

• co-I, H-Unique: In search for uniqueness, 2.5M Euro, ERC-funded project, 2019-2023

• co-I, "TAILOR - Foundations of Trustworthy AI - Integrating Learning, Optimization and Reasoning" one of 4 approved AI networks of the H2020 program ICT-48 Towards a vibrant European network of AI (12M Euro; 160K for LIRA), GA No 952215

• associate partner, "European Learning and Intelligent Systems Excellence" another of the 4 approved AI networks of the H2020 program ICT-48 Towards a vibrant European network of AI (12M Euro total)

Recent:

• PI, Multi Scale Modelling (MSM) project led by Imperial College funded by the Faraday Institution (£5.6M), 2021-2023

• PI, Transparent Deep Learning Classifier of Driving Scenarios able to Identify and Learn from Unseen Situations, 2018-2021, $150K funded by Ford Motor Co, a work with their R&D base at Palo Alto

• co-I, PoziBot: Insure-tech solutions for Extended Battery Warranty, £2M InnovateUK funded project for the call: "Transforming Accountancy, Insurance and Legal Services with AI and Data", 2019-2020, industrial partners include CNC Assets, Delta Motors, Brill Power and Quantum base

• co-I, Target-Aware High-Quality Video Generation via 3D CNN based Self-Supervised Adversary Learning, £53k, project led by Dr Richard Jiang funded by Huawei

• PI Collaborative Technology Hardened for Hazardous Environments, 2018-2019, total £1.3M (£400K for Lancaster University); funded by the Industry Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) through InnovateUK

• co-I, Rutherford Strategic Partnership Strategic Partnership “Innovations in Food Security” with Argentina (PI Prof. M. Rufino), £150K; visiting post-doctoral Fellow (Dr Raul Gimenez) (2018-2019)

• PI, New Machine Learning Methods, 2015-2017, funded (£12K) by The Royal Society, a collaboration with Prof. Jose C. Principe, University of Florida

Previous:

• PI, Early Detection of Insider Threats by Autonomous Analysis of User Behaviour Evolution, 2015-2018, funded (£110K) by GCHQ

• co-Investigator (co-I), Cooperative Localisation and Distributed Control of UAV Swarms, 2017, funded (£80K) by DSTL, MoD

• co-I, GAMMA-EU: 'Global AtM security MAnagement', August 2014-September 2017, 10M Euros (£563K to Lancaster); funded by EC

• PI, CAST: Co-ordinated Airborne Studies in the Tropics, 2012-2016, total £3M coordinated by Cambridge University, consortium of 6 UK Universities and NASA; £90K for Lancaster); funded by NERC, UK

• PI, 'Autonomous Object Detection and Tracking in Real-Time' , 2012-2016, £90K co-funded by EPSRC and Thales, UK

• PI, GAMMA: Growing Autonomous Mission MAnagement systems Programme, 2012-2014, total £9.1M (£4.2M RGF funding; £247K); funded by the Regional Growth Fund, BIS

• PI, AURORA: AUtonomous Real-time On-boaRd video data Analytics, 2013-2014, £80K, funded by Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE), Ministry of Defence (MoD), UK

• co-I, SVETLANA: Safety (and maintenance) improVEment Trough automated fLight data ANAlysis), August 2010-Dec 2012, 1.3M Euro (260K Euro to Lancaster); funded by EC

• PI, Intelligent Video Analytics for Fast, Safe boarding on rail platforms, 2017-2018, £100K funded by the Rail Research UK Association (RRUKA)

• PI, 'Multi-source Intelligence: STAKE: Real-time Spatio-Temporal Analysis and Knowledge Extraction through Evolving Clustering', 2011, £30,172; funded by CDE, MoD

• PI, 'Assisted Carriage: Intelligent Leader-follower algorithms for ground platforms', 2009, £41,911; funded by CDE, MoD

• co-I, EPSRC funded Industrial CASE award to develop 'Better Clinical Decisions for Less Effort – Building prediction software models to improve anticoagulation care to prevent thrombosis and strokes' in cooperation and supported by 4S Information Systems 2005-2009, £79,285

• co-I, 'UAV Safety Support', June - December, 2008 £43,817; funded by BAE Systems

• PI for Lancaster University of ASTRAEA, (Autonomous Systems Technology Related Airborne Evaluation & Assessment), a national £32M programme that includes several leading Universities and multinational companies; T4 Adaptive Routing, Sept. 2006-Dec. 2008; for Lancaster University £75,000; funded by DBERR

• PI for Lancaster University of ASTRAEA; T5 Sense and Avoid, Sept. 2006-Dec. 2008; for Lancaster University £150,000;funded by DBERR - The WINNER of 2008 The Engineer technology and innovation award for Aerospace and Defence and The Special Award of The Engineer technology and innovation 2008, presented at The Royal Society , London, 3 October 2008

• PI, Collision Avoidance Algorithm Development, March 2006-February 2007, £66,000;funded by BAE Systems

• PI, 2006 International Symposium on Evolving Fuzzy Systems, 2006 , £12,768; funded by EPSRC

Internal and Small projects:

• Founding member, Centre of Excellence on CyberSecurity, EPSRC and GCHQ, £50K seed money, 2012-2022​

• Distinguished Visitor Program (DVP) grant, £4,200, April-June 2019

• IAA (Impact Acceleration Award): PTI: Platform Train Interface, EPSRC and Lancaster University funded, £9K, 2018

• PI, SARIVA: Smartphone App for Real-time Intelligent VideoAnalytics; funded by Security Lancaster, £2K, Dec. 2013-June 2014, see also the smartphone app WhatMovesApp at Google Play

• PI, Development of methods, algorithms and software for autonomous novelty detection by moving camera; funded by Security Lancaster, £1.2K, June-July 2012

• PI, EvoMap: On-Chip Implementation of Intelligent Information Modelling using EVOlving MAPping, funded by Lancaster University, 2004-05, £8,500  

• PI, Study of map-building and target recognition with autonomous mobile robot Pioneer-DX3, funded by Nuffield Foundation, 2005, £1,260

Consultancy and other research projects:

• EST software, $14,000; funded by Ford

• Consultancy, 'UAS Passive Sense, Detect and Avoid Algorithm Development', 2009-2010, £24,000; funded by BAE Systems - this project is a part of ASTRAEA, (Autonomous Systems Technology Related Airborne Evaluation & Assessment)- phase 2, a national multimillion programme that includes several multinational companies and leading Universities

Past Projects:

• PI, Application of Fuzzy Rule-based Models in Building HVAC Systems Simulation, EPSRC funded (GR/M97299), £49,990, 2000-2001

• Co-I, Building System Design Synthesis and Optimization, ASHRAE funded (RP-1049), $181,000, 1999-2002

• EUNITE (EUropean Network of excellence in Intelligent TEchnologies for smart adaptive systems), sponsored by the European Commission (IST 2000-29207), 2001-2004; Value €1,215,000. Role: Member of the Research and Theory Development Committee,Key Node, supervision of 2 postgraduate students.

• Principal Investigator in Industry-funded (NEC) project "Electrical Load Forecasting by Neural Networks", 600 000 BGL 1994-1996

• Visiting Researcher in the DAAD  funded project at Hans-Knoell Institute, Jena, Germany, 8 000 DEM, 1996
  Application of GA for optimisation of processes described by fuzzy models.  

• Research Fellow in the NFSI funded project "Modelling and Optimisation of Food Industry Processes", CC-338/93, 1993-1996 

• Research Fellow in the NFSI funded project "New Methods for Control of Processes of Microbial Synthesis", TH-189/90, 1990-1993