James Ward

Email: james.c.ward@bristol.ac.uk

PhD supervisors: Edmund Hunt, Arthur Richards

PhD title: Decentralised Anomaly Detection with Co-Operative Multi-Robot Teams

Biography

I graduated from Robinson College, University of Cambridge in 2019, where I read instrumentation and control engineering, culminating in my master's project on GPS augmentation for autonomous robot navigation. I then spent two years in the electronics and software group of a tech consultancy, where I worked on projects involving robotics, embedded software, and sensors. I decided to leave my job and re-enter the university system in order to further develop my main technical interest- robotics- and look forward to delving into my research in the field. Currently, my research is focussed on distributed patrol strategies in multi-robot systems, with the aim to move into distributed anomaly detection over the coming years.

When not working, I can usually be found playing the guitar, plying my trade as an over-keen classical singer, or looking after my pet lizards.