I am a computer scientist with 25 years of research experience in artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science, with specific application to financial technologies. I created University of Bristol’s award-winning MSc in Financial Technology with Data Science; I lead the Financial Engineering Lab (FEL), which is a sub-group of the federated Intelligent Systems Laboratory (ISL) research group; and I line manage 10 academic staff as Academic Team Lead. I previously worked in industry for Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories and the London Stock Exchange; I’ve co-founded two fintech startups; and I’ve consulted for government and industry, including academic advisor for the Financial Conduct Authority; expert on trading technologies for UK’s Government Office for Science; and expert witness in automated trading for the High Court, London.

Recent grants:

• Co-I: £12m UKRI EPSRC AI Hub: AI for Collective Intelligence (AI4CI). Theme lead: financial stability. (2024-2029)
• Co-I: £1m UKRI Innovate UK collaborative R&D for trustworthy and responsible AI: Stratlib.AI - A trusted machine learning platform for asset and credit managers. Lead: University of Bristol. (2024-2025)
• PI: £150k UKRI Innovate UK and ESRC Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP): Claritum - Automated spend classification and analysis (2020-2023)

For more information, see my personal website.