Bio
Dr Graeme West is Theme Lead for Critical Infrastructure in Data-Centric Engineering at The Alan Turing Institute and a Reader in Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde.
He completed his BEng degree in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering in 1998 and his PhD in 2003 in Computational Intelligence Methods for Power System Protection Design and Decision Support both at the University of Strathclyde. He is the industrial informatics lead in the Advanced Nuclear Research Centre at Strathclyde, and has over 20 years developing and deploying intelligent decision support systems to the power industry, and in particular to through life asset management of nuclear generation assets.
Research interests
Within my area of intelligent decision support, I am particularly interested in the fields of knowledge engineering, and the capture codification and utilisation of human expertise coupled with the recent advances in machine learning and deep learning. Current themes include: how to ensure transparency and/or justification of decisions made by engineering AI systems; how to effectively deploy automated, machine-based decisions whilst keeping the human-in-the-loop; the inter-relation between knowledge-based and data driven decision support systems; the interface between modern data-rich digital approaches and legacy data and information systems; and how to build and deploy (semi-)automated decision making in applications where limited failure data exists. These questions are fundamental to the adoption of automated intelligent decision support techniques within critical infrastructure, such as the nuclear industry.