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I like ideas… Dr Smith is an expert in artificial intelligence, particularly evolutionary algorithms, knowledge representation and machine learning. Over his 30-year career, he has helped to create (among other things) software systems that describe immune system behaviour, learn innovative fighter jet manoeuvres, reveal emotion in financial markets, and suggest how social networks propagate political polarisation. Clients have included the US Navy, Army & Air Force, NASA, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Boeing, the European Union, British Aerospace, Airbus and British Telecom. He advises currently a portfolio of companies. Dr Smith served as Director of AI and Data Science at Digital Catapult, the UK’s leading digital technology innovation centre, and he maintains a portfolio of “Tech for Good” projects as an executive, consultant, and advisor. He also served as an advisor with cultural strategists Barker Langham on the development of an A.I. exhibit for a new Science Museum. Dr Smith was a co-founder of BOXARR Ltd., and co-inventor of its product, a powerful, scalable and flexible modelling tool, designed to make complex systems ‘human-readable’. Dr Smith helped grow BOXARR from an idea to a product that has been used globally by blue-chip clients to face some of the largest complexity challenges in the world. https://www.robertelliottsmith.com/work-1 daily 0.75 2020-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ecd3ee36a831b25514eeca9/1591462410135-V8DW0H365OZ0T8X0BB17/analitical_engine_general_view+cropped.jpg Work https://www.robertelliottsmith.com/academia daily 0.75 2020-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ecd3ee36a831b25514eeca9/1591463462859-LTH4BH73ASFVZNDQ326F/planes.jpg Academia-old - Past Positions Previously, Dr. Smith was the Director of the Intelligent Computer System Centre at the University of the West of England (1997-2005) where he led research on complex systems based A.I.. Prior to that he served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of Alabama in the USA (1991-1998), where he developed and taught one of the first graduate courses on genetic algorithms and led a pioneering laboratory conducting research on A.I. in engineering. For a full list of previous projects, click below https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ecd3ee36a831b25514eeca9/1591464284188-6DA9BRS2FZOJ1GQJF704/dalmatian.jpg Academia-old - Students Currently supervised PhDs: Orowa Sidker Jacob Turton For a full list of PhD’s and Examining Committees served-on, click below https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ecd3ee36a831b25514eeca9/1591463074714-AQID62O5S3GGT97CMFRS/perceptron.jpg Academia-old - Current Post Dr. Smith is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at University College London where he advises PhD students, many in financial computing and social media research. He is also a founding member of UCL’s Centre for the Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty and has developed courses in Machine Learning Masters Programs and Intelligent Systems Masters Programs. https://www.robertelliottsmith.com/services-5 daily 0.75 2024-04-10 https://www.robertelliottsmith.com/academia-1 daily 0.75 2024-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ecd3ee36a831b25514eeca9/1591689597781-5TV5LBFL3GPGK8SQRS6L/Screenshot+2020-06-09+at+08.48.00.png Academia - Current Post Dr. Smith is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at University College London where he advises PhD students, many in financial computing and social media research. He is also a founding member of UCL’s Centre for the Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty and has developed courses in Machine Learning Masters Programs and Intelligent Systems Masters Programs. For a list of papers, click below: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ecd3ee36a831b25514eeca9/1591464284188-6DA9BRS2FZOJ1GQJF704/dalmatian.jpg Academia - Students and Projects For a full list of PhD’s and Masters supervised, Examining Committees served-on, and research projects, click below https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ecd3ee36a831b25514eeca9/1591689520522-GMN3OQP0I3EEYYOD8IOQ/Screenshot+2020-06-09+at+08.45.27.png Academia - Past Positions Previously, he was the Director of the Intelligent Computer System Centre at the University of the West of England (1997-2005) where he led research on complex systems based A.I.; and, an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of Alabama, where he developed and taught one of the first graduate courses on genetic algorithms and led a pioneering laboratory conducting research on A.I. in engineering. https://www.robertelliottsmith.com/research-1 daily 0.75 2024-04-10 https://www.robertelliottsmith.com/writing1 daily 0.75 2020-07-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ecd3ee36a831b25514eeca9/1591723784310-H3TMK0E8C1MTU2O9IEDQ/Screenshot%2B2020-06-09%2Bat%2B15.09.29.jpg Writing - “Literature, art, philosophy, music, all the arts, in fact, are taught in parallel with one another and their historical context. In contrast, the science at the heart of A.I. is disconnected from any context, as if the theories and math that underpin the field are entirely abstract, unassailable truths. But if we are to understand algorithms, we have to acknowledge the assumptions deep within them that were influenced by the time and place in which they were created. “ — Rage Inside the Machine, Robert Elliott Smith (Published in 2019 by Bloomsbury, and shortlisted for the UK’s Best Business Book of the Year) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ecd3ee36a831b25514eeca9/1591723819680-TNYW861SQII3QE1CWANH/beautiful-maths.jpg Writing - Dr. Smith’s training is in engineering science, complexity science, AI and evolutionary algorithms. His scientific research has been cited widely and has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals including Scientific Reports, Economics, Critical Review, Social Networks, Evolutionary Computation, and New Mathematics & Natural Computation. He has also contributed opinion pieces, essays and critiques on A.I. and technology to business magazines and newspapers such as The Guardian, USAToday and The Big Issue. In 2015, he contributed to UCL’s written evidence to the UK House of Commons Select Committee on Algorithms in Decision Making. Previously, Dr. Smith was the Associate Editor of The Journal of Evolutionary Computation (1996-2017), and the Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (1993-1996). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ecd3ee36a831b25514eeca9/1591889482758-8KDZPEEJNP9ZGPETMRJC/Rage+Inside+the+Machine+Front+Cover+Final.jpg Writing - “Rob Smith has written an important book that looks at AI in a careful and balanced way, combining wit and scholarship. Quoting George Box 'All models are wrong, but some are useful’ he succeeds in presenting us with the societal challenges that algorithms present when they are embedded in human systems but eschews easy solutions. His analysis treads the delicate line between righteous indignation and recognition of the scale of the technical achievements. I learnt a lot.” — Anthony Finkelstein CBe FREng, Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security to UK Government https://www.robertelliottsmith.com/speakingdraft daily 0.75 2021-05-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ecd3ee36a831b25514eeca9/1591881880404-NGZMUZSZE7ZYWKUZ553N/Byte2020_-220-1536x990.jpg Activism - let’s talk about A.I. … Dr. Smith has spoken at Salon London, WOMADelaide, Google Headquarters, Latitude, Bluedot, Festival No.6, The UK Financial Conduct Authority, and a host of other literary, scientific, academic and corporate events. He has also appeared as a guest on the The Purple Principle podcast, BBC Science Focus podcast, BBC Trending and ABC’s The Drawing Room. He has been interviewed for numerous publications, including Forbes and Newsweek. For examples of Dr. Smith’s speaking, click here. Dr. Smith is a founding trustee of We and AI, a UK organization dedicated to fighting racial bias in algorithms and AI. He is also a fellow of the RSA and is a founding member of the Royal Institution’s Challenging Pseudoscience group, along with with chair Angela Saini, Gina Rippon, Suhair Khan, Magdalena Skipper, Jonathan Portes, Rumman Chowdhury, and others. Dr. Smith’s literary agent is Caspian Dennis at Abner Stein in the UK, and James Levine at Levine Greenberg Rostan in the USA. For speaking engagements, radio, television or book-related events, you can reach Dr. Smith here: https://www.robertelliottsmith.com/contact-4 daily 0.75 2020-06-11