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
- Forecasting the remaining useful life of filters in nuclear power plants
- Young Andrew, Devereux Michael, Brown Blair, Stephen Bruce, West Graeme, McArthur Stephen
- Nuclear Technology (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2024.2342187
- Photometric stereo data for the validation of a structural health monitoring test rig
- Blair Jennifer, Stephen Bruce, Brown Blair, McArthur Stephen, Gorman David, Forbes Alistair, Pottier Claire, McAlorum Jack, Dow Hamish, Perry Marcus
- Data in Brief Vol 53 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2024.110164
- Machine learning explanations by design : a case study explaining the predicted degradation of a roto-dynamic pump
- Amin Omnia, Brown Blair, Stephen Bruce, McArthur Stephen, Livina Valerie
- NDT 2023 - 60th Annual British Conference on NDT (2023)
- Remaining useful life prediction of filters in nuclear power plants
- Young Andrew, Devereux Michael, Brown Blair David, Stephen Bruce, West Graeme, McArthur Stephen
- 13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (2023)
- Leveraging knowledge from historic engineering drawings
- Fagan AM, West GM, McArthur SDJ
- 13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (2023)
- A Gaussian process based fleet lifetime predictor model for unmonitored power network assets
- Jiang Xu, Stephen Bruce, Chandarasupsang Tirapot, McArthur Stephen DJ, Stewart Brian G
- IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery Vol 38, pp. 979-987 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tpwrd.2022.3203161
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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
- 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
- Keynote Presentation on "Digitilisation in Nuclear - Harnessing Data Science for Enhanced Through Life Management of Nuclear Plants"
- Speaker
- 24/1/2018
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 1/1/2018
Projects
- DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Cassidy, Maria
- Stephen, Bruce (Principal 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
- EPSRC IAA: Prosperity Partnerships
- McArthur, Stephen (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2025
- EnergyREV Impact Accelerator Funding Application
- Ford, Rebecca (Principal Investigator) McArthur, Stephen (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2023
- Turing Network Development Call
- McArthur, Stephen (Principal Investigator) West, Graeme (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2022
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Contact
Professor
Stephen
McArthur
Associate Principal & Executive Dean
Faculty of Engineering
Email: s.mcarthur@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4838