Bio
Liam is Senior Research Engineer in Edge AI at The Alan Turing Institute, working as part of the Defence AI Research Centre (DARe). Prior to joining the Turing, he completed a PhD as a member of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Autonomous and Robotic Systems (FARSCOPE CDT). As part of the Bristol Flight Lab, he investigated the application of reinforcement learning methods for the flight control of agile fixed-wing drones, and also formed part of a team conducting volcanology fieldwork using UAVs.
Before his PhD, Liam was an aerospace engineer on the Defence Engineering and Science Group graduate scheme at the Ministry of Defence, and studied Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Leeds.
Research interests
Liam is part of the Defence AI Research Centre (DARe), performing research in the Edge AI theme. His research focuses on training machine learning models for deployment in constrained hardware environments, such as running onboard teams of autonomous systems. More generally, Liam is interested in improving the performance of robotics, particularly aerial robots, in complex and hazardous environments.