Professor David Windridge holds the chair of Data Science and Machine Learning at the Dept. of Computer Science, Middlesex University, London where he heads the AI and Machine Learning Research Group; he is also Research Lead for the Dept. of Computer Science as a whole. His research interests center on practical and theoretical development in quantum + classical machine learning, human machine teaming/XAI and computer vision. He has a former research interest in astronomy/astrophysics, having obtained a Ph.D. in Cosmology at the University of Bristol, UK. He has authored 150+ academic publications in these areas and played a leading role on a number of large-scale machine-learning projects in academic and industrial research settings, as well as having won interdisciplinary research grants across a range of academic disciplines, including psychology and defense. He holds a visiting position at the University of Surrey, UK and sits on the editorial board of the Springer journal Quantum Machine Intelligence. http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=p0K-zIsAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdatehttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_WindridgeMiddlesex A.I. Homepage:https://ai.mdx.ac.uk/