Professor Yiannis Papadopoulos

Professor Papadopoulos is a foremost international expert on safety of computer systems including safety of AI and intelligent systems. For over 25 years he is leading a research group on Dependable Intelligent Systems. In this period, he has pioneered a method and set of tools for model-based safety/reliability assessment and evolutionary optimisation of complex engineering systems known as Hierarchically Performed Hazard Origin and Propagation Studies (HiP-HOPS). He has also co-authored EAST-ADL, an emerging automotive architecture description language.

These technologies have gained wide academic recognition and, though an global ecosystem of software houses, have been successfully transferred to the automotive, shipping and other industries, where they have been commercialised and successfully deployed in design and engineering processes.

Professor Papadopoulos is currently pioneering new model-based and data driven technologies for dynamic safety assurance of autonomous and cooperative systems that include swarms of robots and autonomous cars. His group is currently developing cutting-edge statistical methods for improving the safety of AI, including safety of Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Large Language Models.

More information about his academic and industrial projects can be found on his personal website @ https://yipapadopoulos.wixsite.com/yiap