Contact Dr Ashraf Tantawy

Areas of expertise

  • Autonomous Systems
  • Computing, Simulation & Modelling
  • Defence Systems Engineering
  • Mechatronics & Advanced Controls
  • Systems Engineering

Background

Dr. Ashraf Tantawy received his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, USA. Prior to his academic career, he worked in the Oil & Gas industry for multinational organisations, including British Petroleum, Qatar Gas, and Schneider Electric, where he designed and implemented a variety of embedded systems including distributed control systems, SCADA systems, and safety instrumented systems. He is a certified Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) Expert from the International Society of Automation (ISA), NC, USA. He is a member of the IEEE, RITICS (Research Institute In Trustworthy Inter-Connected Cyber-Physical Systems) Fellow, and holds the Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Research opportunities

The intersection of Cyber Physical Systems, Artificial Intelligence, and Cyber Security to develop resilient AI-enabled autonomous cyber physical systems. I am particularly interested in decision-making, reinforcement learning, autonomous agents, modeling & simulation for dependable systems, and model-based systems engineering. Research application domains include industrial control systems, smart cities, transportation systems, and autonomous vehicles.

Clients

  • Airbus SE

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