Adam Sobey

Adam Sobey is Mission Director for Sustainability at The Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s National AI and Data Science Institute, Professor of Data-Centric Engineering in the Maritime Engineering Group at The University of Southampton and a project scientific advisor at Simula Research Laboratory, Norway. He also acts as a Non-Executive Director at Theyr Ltd, a Voyage Optimisation Software provider to the marine industry, and AQ Live, providing data/AI assurance. His research focuses on the development of Reinforcement Learning, Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning in the context of engineering applications, predominantly for emissions reductions. Since his PhD he has investigated how AI can be used in the design process especially linking to improvements in manufacturing.