Dr Jonathan Ricketts

Areas of expertise

• Air Transport Safety & Investigation
• Airworthiness
• Safety, Resilience, Risk & Reliability

Background

Jon is an experienced, Chartered Engineer with over 17 years’ experience working across the Aerospace industry, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) and recently, Digital Intelligence products and systems. Jon has a unique skillset, having completed a practical apprenticeship coupled with a strong academic record up to PhD level—this has proven an advantage for many engineering projects.

Presently, Jon provides independent safety engineering advice to various project teams covering hardware, software and Artificial Intelligence (AI) products. Having a comprehensive knowledge of systems engineering and machine learning/AI—predominantly Natural Language Processing (NLP), Jon has led and delivered several innovative machine learning pipelines for safety critical applications.

Holding an MSc in Military Aerospace & Airworthiness as well as a BEng Engineering, Jon chose the topic of 'Integrating Occurrence Datasets and Hazard Analysis through Natural Language Processing' for his PhD research. His research is primarily concerned with using free text occurrence reports to both validate and assist in the creation of Hazard Analysis artefacts.

Research opportunities

System Safety; Natural Language Processing (NLP); Hazard Analysis; Occurrence Reporting

Current activities

Applying NLP to aviation safety occurrence (incident) reports.

Improving knowledge retention.

Effective information retrieval.

New ways of working, incorporating NLP technologies.

Publications

• Articles in journals
• Conference papers