Anietie Victor Essiet

Background

Commercially minded Satellite Communications Executive, Engineer, and PhD Researcher at Cranfield University, bringing 20 years of experience translating complex communications infrastructure into reliable global services.

Expertise spans RF systems, ground segment architecture, teleports, hub installations, and customer deployments across enterprise, maritime, energy, government, and underserved sectors. Track record includes driving strategic partnerships and multi-million-pound deliveries in transponder leasing, broadband networks, broadcasting, and navigation systems.

Current Research Focus: Doctoral research within the Centre for Energy Decarbonisation and Recovery at Cranfield University, specializing in AI-driven multi-modal sensing and data fusion. Applied research focuses on autonomous industrial inspection, pipeline monitoring, smart decision-making, and driving operational sustainability within the Oil & Gas sector.

Research opportunities

Autonomous systems, machine learning algorithms, pipeline corrosion, oil and gas assets management.

Current activities

Connecting Failure Physics to AI by understanding how defects generate measurable signals, and how multimodal data fusion and AI can transform them into reliable maintenance decisions for oil and gas infrastructure.