Principal Research Associate, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

Dr De Silva is Principal Research Associate (Research Professor) in the Cambridge University Engineering Department. He joined the Department as Research Lead on the Digital Manufacturing on a Shoestring project, after which he took on the role of Programme Director on the Digital Roads of the Future Initiative. Dr De Silva has spearheaded publications in many of the most competitive venues in Computer Science and Engineering/Robotics, and has helped build numerous systems that were deployed or demonstrated to both SMEs and large organisations such as the European Space Agency. His focus has been on building provably correct, explainable, reliable, and resilient AI-based systems, through contributions to research areas including autonomous (agent) systems, automated planning and verification, controller synthesis, digital twins, and machine learning.