My background is both academic and business-focused.  My teaching and research activities engage with the fourth industrial revolution as it blurs the distinction between human and machine interactions.  I have good working relations with Government NHS, Councils, and SMEs.  I have an ongoing interest in Organisational adoption of AI, Governance and Regulation of AI, and Free/Libre and Open-Source Software in Medical Informatics.

I am an award-winning Senior Lecturer in Business Analytics. I developed the University of Stirling “MSc in Business Analytics”, which is an AI-facing programme that has become popular with students.  For this work I have received an Educational Leadership Award from Education 2.0, and won best Lecturer in Stirling Management School in 2022. I also presented the philosophy of MSc Business Analytics at Operational Research 63, describing its work with the four themes of sustainability, disruption, ethics and risk management; and its use of real-world problems supplied by local organisations.

I am research-active in Organisational use of Cyberphysical systems, Artificial Intelligence, Data-Science and Business Information Systems.  My PhD work in AI addressed probabilistic logic, and maximum entropy. It has been cited as important in the development of the use of maximum entropy in data science. My main areas of interest are organizational uses of artificial intelligence and large-scale cognitive systems: businesses must make the best decisions, taking onboard diverse datasets, responding to emergency situations in real-time.   I have been applying my early research work to Business Information Systems, and have now published on ethical explorations of intelligent artificial personhood.

In 2019 I co-edited a special issue of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine on the topic of “Technology for Governance, Politics and Democracy”, published work for Glasgow City Council in linking schools with the real-world, written about Tagore’s educational methodology (classroom without walls), and

My current work is in developing a management vocabulary of communication and control for cyberphysical systems.  All this research is being brought together in a book I am writing, named, “Business Analytics for Artificial Persons and Cyberphysical Systems”, to be published in 2025.