Robert Hercock

Dr. Robert Hercock is a Chief Research Scientist in the British Telecommunications Security Research Practice. He has over twenty-five years’ experience in leading Cyber Security and AI research projects in the UK. His research interests include Cyber Security, A.I., Robotics and Complex Adaptive Systems. He was a member of the Royal Society Science and Industry Committee and is a regular adviser to the Royal Society on AI and Data Science issues. He has chaired an international workshop on adaptive cyber defence and has over thirty international publications in AI and security concepts, in addition to over 150 filed patents. Professionally he is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the IET. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Changing Character of Warfare Centre, in Pembroke College, Oxford University. He has also served for several years as an independent technical expert for the UK MoD Defence Science Expert Committee (DSEC) and was a Business Research Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico.