
Professor Stephen McArthur
Associate Principal & Executive Dean
Faculty of Engineering
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Area of Expertise
- Intelligent systems, with a focus on power and energy applications.
- Research and development of diagnostic and prognostic decision support systems.
- Decision support frameworks and architectures, using distributed intelligence methods and platforms.
- Smart Grid applications.
- Plant lifetime extension in the civil nuclear industry.
Prize And Awards
- 2021 IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award
- Recipient
- 6/2020
- Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards: Multi–Party Collaboration Award
- Recipient
- 2016
- IEEE Power & Energy Society Technical Committee Prize Paper Award.
- Recipient
- 7/2010
- IEEE Power & Energy Society Technical Committee Working Group Recognition Award
- Recipient
- 7/2008
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Publications
- The transfer learning of uncertainty quantification for industrial plant fault diagnosis system design
- Blair J, Amin O, Brown B D, McArthur S, Forbes A, Stephen B
- Data-Centric Engineering Vol 5 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1017/dce.2024.54
- Leveraging Knowledge Graphs for explainable predictive maintenance strategies
- Manning Callum Paul, West Graeme, Young Andrew, McArthur Stephen
- Fifth Annual Conference on Disruptive, Innovative, and Emerging Technologies in the Nuclear Industry (2024)
- Automated Defect Detection in Calandria Tubesheet Bores for CANDU Reactors
- Young Andrew, Zabalza Jaime, Fei Zhouxiang, West Graeme, Murray Paul, McArthur Stephen, Kennedy Chris, Barpugga Harpreet
- Fifth Annual Conference on Disruptive, Innovative, and Emerging Technologies in the Nuclear Industry (2024)
- Predictive monitoring of asset populations in a rotating plant under operational uncertainty : a transfer learning approach
- Ghauch Ziad, Young Andrew, Brown Blair David, Stephen Bruce, McArthur Stephen, Duncan Andrew
- Data-Centric Engineering (2024)
- Knowledge Graphs for the use of capturing engineering expertise in industrial settings
- Manning Callum Paul, West Graeme, McArthur Stephen
- The Alan Turing Institute PhD Connect 2024 (2024)
- Real world video denoising for visual inspection in high-dose radiological environments
- Young Andrew, Fei Zhouxiang, Zabalza Jaime, West Graeme M, Murray Paul, McArthur Stephen D J
- Nuclear Technology, pp. 1-11 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2024.2410610
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Teaching
My teaching activities cover intelligent systems, distributed intelligence in power systems, smart grids, condition monitoring, and diagnostic systems.
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Research Interests
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) and intelligent system applications in the power and energy fields
- Industrial application of AI, data science and data analytics
- Condition monitoring, diagnostics and prognostics for equipment, plant and power networks
- Distributed intelligence in electric power systems, active network management and Smart Grids
- Nuclear power plant monitoring, diagnosis, prediction, and lifetime extension
- Intelligent system methods: knowledge based systems; model based reasoning; machine learning
- Multi-Agent Systems and Intelligent Agents: multi-agent methods, models, techniques and architectures for power engineering applications
- Explainable AI
- Decision support environments
Professional Activities
- 2nd Joint China-UK Experts Symposium on Sustainable Development and Decarbonisation (S2D2)
- Speaker
- 2/11/2024
- Scottish Enterprise (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 1/1/2024
- Scottish Power Energy Networks Holdings Limited SPEN (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 1/3/2023
- KUKA Strategic Partnership Foundation
- Participant
- 24/11/2022
- Nanyang Technological University
- Visiting researcher
- 1/1/2022
- National Grid Electricity System Operator (NGESO) (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 4/2021
Projects
- Asset Data Analytics
- Stewart, Brian (Principal Investigator) McArthur, Stephen (Co-investigator) Stephen, Bruce (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 15-Jan-2024
- SF6 Escape Prediction for NGET HV Switchgear
- Stephen, Bruce (Principal Investigator) Akartunali, Kerem (Co-investigator) Brown, Blair David (Co-investigator) McArthur, Stephen (Co-investigator) Riccardi, Annalisa (Co-investigator) Stewart, Brian (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 01-Jan-2025
- Advanced Substation Partial Discharge Monitoring (NGET Framework Agreement)
- Stewart, Brian (Principal Investigator) McArthur, Stephen (Co-investigator) Stephen, Bruce (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2026
- DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Cassidy, Maria
- Stephen, Bruce (Principal Investigator) Brown, Blair David (Co-investigator) McArthur, Stephen (Co-investigator) Cassidy, Maria (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2027
- DIGF-CRAD-06294: Data-driven Manufacturing Colab Innovation Accelerator
- Sherlock, Andrew (Principal Investigator) McArthur, Stephen (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2025
- GiBio Gastrointestinal bioreactor to evaluate ingestible medicines and inform formulation and manufacture (EPSRC Strategic equipment)
- Batchelor, Hannah (Principal Investigator) Florence, Alastair (Co-investigator) Horan, Linda (Co-investigator) Khadra, Ibrahim (Co-investigator) McArthur, Stephen (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2025
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Contact
Professor
Stephen
McArthur
Associate Principal & Executive Dean
Faculty of Engineering
Email: s.mcarthur@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4838