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Robert Hercock is a Chief Research Scientist in the British Telecommunications Security Research Practice. He has over twenty years’ experience in leading security research projects in the UK, and was theme leader for Cyber Security in the UK MOD Information Fusion Defence Technology Centre. His research interests include Cyber Security, A.I, Robotics and Complex Adaptive Systems. He is currently a member of the Royal Society Science and Industry Committee.

He has chaired an international workshop on adaptive cyber defense, and has over thirty international publications in AI and security concepts, in addition to thirty filed patents.

Professionally he is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the British Computer Society. He was also a Visiting Fellow at the School of Computer Science at Southampton University, and Associate Fellow at the Said Business School in Oxford University; in addition he is an Honorary Fellow at Imperial College. He has also served for several years as an independent technical expert for the UK Defence Science Advisory Council (DSAC), and was a Business Research Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico.