Co-Investigator · Innovate UK (2023–2025)
A cross-disciplinary testbed connecting digital trade documents with physical location, transit and condition of goods. Collaboration between Teesside University, Digital Catapult and the Centre for Digital Trade & Innovation.
Research/commercialisation team member
Exploring modular, explainable AI agents for forecasting, optimisation and energy-system decision support, with commercialisation development through the Innovate UK ICURe pathway.
Programme lead · University of Hull
Led a practical programme for visiting students from India, introducing LangGraph, RAG, tool calling, Human-in-the-Loop and local/cloud LLMs; connected learning with an Amazon fulfilment-centre industrial visit.
Executive programme / consultancy design
A three-day leadership programme connecting service problems to AI opportunity assessment, data readiness, procurement, governance, human oversight and 90-day pilot planning.
Research lead / co-author
Exploring automated sorting, transfer learning and model explainability for data-driven waste recovery, moving towards decision-support systems for circular-economy workflows.
Doctoral and published research
Knowledge-driven, IoT-enabled design for tracking physical products and supporting circular business decisions across reuse, remanufacturing, repair and end-of-life processes.
Research-assistant collaboration evaluating instruments for assessing AI and robotics capabilities, drawing on a framework of evaluation facets and benchmark practices.
Earlier project record ↗University of Bradford collaboration with Connected Places Catapult, connecting technology horizon scanning and prototypes for city and place applications.
Earlier project record ↗Earlier monitoring/evaluation and data-analysis work supporting record quality in hard-to-reach settlements in Nigeria; this is a historical role, not a current UNICEF appointment.
Earlier project record ↗