People.
Lead researcher
He is a director of Sonata42 and leads its research. As recently as 2026 he was a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, where he worked with the Quantum Software Lab on agentic AI systems for scientific discovery and was a Generative AI Laboratory Fellow. His supporting tooling includes the plumbing calculus.
He was previously Principal Research Engineer in Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton (2024 to 2026), where he was principal investigator on a £625,000 MRC-NIHR Partnership Award (at full economic cost). Before that he was Chancellor's Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde (2022 to 2024) and a Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2020 to 2021).
He holds a PhD in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh (2020) and a BSc in Computer Science from the City University of New York (2002). He is a Chartered Engineer and a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Since 1996 he has designed and operated network infrastructure, including the HUBS community broadband networks in remote parts of the UK, which received an EU Broadband Award in 2016.
Co-lead
He is a director of Sonata42 and co-leads its research. He has more than 20 years of experience designing, financing, and running telecommunications networks in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Gulf. In Toronto he led the five engineers who built Galaxy Online Services, an early graphical internet service in Canada. He later served as Vice President of Operations at Telemetrix Inc., Vice President of Technology Development at Centuria Corporation, and Chief Technology Officer at Hitcom Corporation in Seoul. He founded two companies, Vuit Inc. and Dekalon B.V., and both were sold.
He is named as inventor on five patent applications in metropolitan wireless networking and video communications: three US applications and two Korean counterparts.
He is a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of Victoria. His coursework and candidacy exam are complete and his defence is pending. His research applies statistical and AI methods to testing and improving predictive environmental models in aquaculture. He has 15 sole-authored manuscripts submitted to or under review at peer-reviewed journals, all from 2026. None has been published yet. One of them describes a time division slot protocol that gives concurrent software agents exclusive access to shared tools.