Meet the Team
A multidisciplinary team of researchers, engineers, and domain experts working at the intersection of AI and air traffic management — spanning NATS, The Alan Turing Institute, and the University of Exeter.
Research Theme 1 — Digital Twin
Research Theme 3 — Assurance
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Research Theme 1 — Digital Twin
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Research Associate
Dr. Adam Keane
Research Associate
Biography
Adam is a post-doctoral research associate at the Alan Turing Institute. He is part of Project Bluebird, which is a collaboration between NATS, the Alan Turing Institute, and the University of Exeter. The project aims to develop a digital twin of UK airspace in conjunction with the world's first AI air traffic control system. Adam's focus is on validating the digital twin against real-world data. Adam has a PhD in physics from the University of Sydney, where he modelled biological neural networks to explain how the observed highly irregular activity of individual neurons can lead to coherent population-level spatiotemporal patterns. After that, he was a Research Fellow at the Daffodil Centre, a charity where he modelled the most effective and cost-effective strategies for cervical cancer prevention.
Publications
- A framework for assuring the accuracy and fidelity of an AI-enabled Digital Twin of en route UK airspace
AIAA SciTech Forum, 2026
- Human-in-the-Loop Testing of AI Agents for Air Traffic Control with a Regulated Assessment Framework
AIAA SciTech Forum, 2026
- A Probabilistic Digital Twin of UK En Route Airspace for Training and Evaluating AI Agents for Air Traffic Control
AIAA SciTech Forum, 2026