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. Amy Hodgkin
Research Associate
Biography
Amy is a post-doctoral research associate at the Alan Turing Institute. They are a part of Project Bluebird, a collaboration between NATS, the Alan Turing Institute, and the University of Exeter, which aims to develop a digital twin of UK airspace alongside the world's first AI air traffic control system. Amy's research focus lies in the digital twin and their current work is in developing generative models for trajectory prediction of climbing and descending aircraft. Amy holds a PhD in aeronautics from Imperial College London, where they applied data-driven analysis techniques to investigate the dynamics of high-resolution CFD-generated wind turbine wakes. Prior to this, they studied engineering at the University of Oxford.
Publications
- Conditioning Aircraft Trajectory Prediction on Meteorological Data with a Physics-Informed Machine Learning Approach
AIAA SciTech Forum, 2026
- A framework for assuring the accuracy and fidelity of an AI-enabled Digital Twin of en route UK airspace
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
- A Sector-Specific Probabilistic Approach for 4D Aircraft Trajectory Generation
Transportation Research Part C, 2025