Meet Dr Robert Smith

Dr Robert Smith PhD FRSA is a technologist, complexity scientist, entrepreneur, writer, business advisor, consultant and public speaker. He has worked with clients, companies, and institutions across the private and public sectors.

Dr. Smith has authored over 100 academic papers on artificial intelligence (in the ResearchGate top 6%, h-score 31), and numerous articles in the popular press.

He has conducted research and development projects for all branches of the US military, Los Alamos National and Oak Ridge National Laboratories, NASA, Boeing, NSF, EPSRC, The European Union, DERA, British Aerospace, Airbus, British Telecom, The Bank of England, The UK Competitive Market Authority, and others.

He co-founded and served as CTO of a software business whose product (which he co-created) is in production use at global blue-chip companies. He is the author of Rage Inside the Machine, a book examining AI and prejudice, which was shortlisted for UK Best Business Book of 2020.

He currently serves as Director of AI and Data Science at Digital Catapult, a government-funded not-for-profit charged with accelerating the effective and responsible adoption of advanced technology.

He created The UK National Digital Twin Centre in Northern Ireland, an upcoming 50-million-dollar project, Digital Catapult’s largest to date. He is a Senior Fellow (Hon.) of the Computer Science Faculty at University College London, where he co-founded the Centre for Decision-Making Uncertainty.