Personal statement
My area of expertise is intelligent system applications in energy, covering condition monitoring, diagnostics and prognostics, active network management and wider smart grid applications. My research leadership roles include being Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Power Networks and Smart Grids, which is a partnership between Strathclyde and Imperial College, London. I am also Academic Director of the Advanced Nuclear Research Centre at the University of Strathclyde. This is delivering a range of solutions for through-life plant management to UK and international industrial partners. As part of this activity I am the Academic Principal Investigator on the EPSRC Prosperity Partnership programme entitled "Delivering Enhanced Through-Life Nuclear Asset Management".
I lead the UKRI EnergyREV programme. This brings together 22 universities and 32 investigators to deliver novel research and innovation that will accelerate the uptake, value and impact of Smart Local Energy Systems. EnergyREV is a key component of the UK Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund’s Prospering from the Energy Revolution (PFER) programme. PFER intends to prove investable, scalable local business models using integrated approaches to deliver cleaner, cheaper energy services.
Within the University I am a Deputy Associate Principal for Research, Knowledge Exchange and Innovation with a remit including REF 2021 preparation and EPSRC relationship management. I am also co-Director of the Institute for Energy and Environment and Academic Director of the Low Carbon Power and Energy Programme within the Technology and Innovation Centre. Previously, from August 2011 until June 2014, I was the Head of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering.
Teaching
My teaching activities cover intelligent systems, distributed intelligence in power systems, smart grids, condition monitoring, and diagnostic systems.
Research interests
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) and intelligent system applications in power engineering
- Engineering application of 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
- Decision support environments
Professional activities
- 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
- Faculty Robotics and Automation Users Group Discussion
- Participant
- 10/10/2017
- Low Carbon Networks Fund: what has been achieved to date and what does it mean for future innovation?
- Contributor
- 23/5/2017
- Royal Society of Edinburgh (External organisation)
- Member
- 1/3/2017
- Scottish Enterprise (External organisation)
- Member
- 6/2014
more professional activities
Projects
- KTP - ICR Integrity
- West, Graeme (Principal Investigator) McArthur, Stephen (Co-investigator)
- 27-Jan-2020 - 26-Jan-2022
- EPSRC Capital Award for Core Equipment 2019
- McArthur, Stephen (Principal Investigator)
- 29-Jan-2019 - 28-Jan-2021
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2018-19 University of Strathclyde | Fagan, Andrew
- West, Graeme (Principal Investigator) McArthur, Stephen (Co-investigator) Fagan, Andrew (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 01-Jan-2023
- Energy Revolution Research Consortium - Plus - EnergyREV - Next Wave of Local Energy Systems in a Whole Systems (ISCF)
- McArthur, Stephen (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2022
- Energy Revolution Research Consortium - Plus - EnergyREV - Market design for scaling up local clean energy systems (ISCF)
- McArthur, Stephen (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2022
- Energy Revolution Research Consortium - Plus - EnergyREV - User influence tools for enabling two-way engagement with smart local energy systems (ISCF)
- McArthur, Stephen (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2022
more projects
Address
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Royal College Building
Royal College Building
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