We’re delighted to speak to Dr Michael Mattarock, who is the Associate Director and an Assistant Teaching Professor, at the Information Networking Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining the INI, Mike served as the executive director of National Security Research at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He developed and implemented strategies to enhance the national security research portfolio across CM. Today talk about Mike’s research area, contested logistics, helping listeners understand what the research field includes, why it is important and what should people in defence be thinking about in this area.  

Presenter 

Zena Wood is an Associate Professor in Digital Economy at the University of Exeter and Director of the Defence Data Research Centre (DDRC). Professor Wood’s background is in Computer Science with her research focusing on how value can be derived from datasets that would help understand the impact of digital transformation within the Digital Economy and the Defence sector.  In 2024, she was recognised as part of Digital Leaders 100 in the category of AI Expert of the Year, and as one of the TechWoman100.  

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Professor Zena Wood introduces this new podcast from the Defence Data Research Centre (DDRC), a consortium of researchers advancing the technical and cultural capabilities at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) in their use of data science and AI.

Our research consortium is led by the University of Exeter, supported by the Universities of Liverpool and Surrey, the Digital Catapult and the Defence AI Centre.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.