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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Turing AI Fellow, Project Bluebird Academic PI 2021-2023
Professor Tim Dodwell
Turing AI Fellow, Project Bluebird Academic PI 2021-2023
Biography
Tim Dodwell holds a personal chair in Computational Mechanics at the University of Exeter, where he leads the Data Centric Engineering group within the Institute for Data Science and AI. He was Project Bluebird's academic Principal Investigator from the project's launch in 2021 until 2023, and remains involved as an advisor. Tim holds a five-year Turing AI Fellowship with the Alan Turing Institute and the Romberg Visiting Professorship in Scientific Computing at Heidelberg. His research sits at the interface between applied mathematics, statistics and high-performance scientific computing, spanning uncertainty quantification, multiscale modelling of complex materials and machine learning for engineering. Alongside academia, he is co-founder and CEO of digiLab, an AI company helping organisations in regulated and safety-critical industries solve complex engineering and data challenges.
Publications
- A Sector-Specific Probabilistic Approach for 4D Aircraft Trajectory Generation
Transportation Research Part C, 2025
- A probabilistic model for aircraft in climb using monotonic functional gaussian process emulators
Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2023