Professor Lesley Walls
Management Science
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Prize And Awards
- Best Paper Award
- Recipient
- 24/8/2022
- IEC 1906 Award
- Recipient
- 2015
- KTP Best of the Best Award Finalist for KTP with Scottish Water and Edinburgh University
- Recipient
- 2014
- Sage Best Paper Prize Journal of Risk and Reliability
- Recipient
- 2011
- KTP Award with Scottish Water and University of Edinburgh
- Recipient
- 2010
- Oustanding Paper Prize IEEE Engineering Management Conference, Singapore - joint work with Alstom Power, Switzerland
- Recipient
- 2008
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Publications
- Addressing the challenges to search and rescue operations caused by ice conditions in Nunavut, Canada
- Kikkert Peter, Quigley John, Belton Ian, Brown Robert, Ennis Kerri-Ann, Goerlandt Floris, Howick Susan, Lackenbauer P Whitney, Mak Lawrence, Pedersen Calvin, Pelot Ronald, Shan Desai, Walls Lesley, Wright George
- 27th International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions (2023)
- Data augmentation to improve the performance of ensemble learning for system failure prediction with limited observations
- Shi Guo, Liu Bin, Walls Lesley
- 2022 13th International Conference on Reliability, Maintainability, and Safety (ICRMS) 13th International Conference on Reliability, Maintainability, and Safety: Reliability and Safety of Intelligent Systems, ICRMS 2022, pp. 296-300 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRMS55680.2022.9944577
- A data driven approach to elicit causal links between performance shaping factors and human failure events
- Johnson Karl, Morais Caroline, Patelli Edoardo, Walls Lesley
- Proceedings of the 32nd European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2022) European Safety and Reliability Conference, pp. 520-527 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.3850/978-981-18-5183-4_R12-12-372-cd
- Modelling epistemic uncertainty in offshore wind farm production capacity to reduce risk
- Zitrou Athena, Bedford Tim, Walls Lesley
- Risk Analysis Vol 42, pp. 1524-1540 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.13846
- Is eliciting dependency worth the effort? A study for the multivariate Poisson-Gamma probability model
- Schwarzenegger Rafael, Quigley John, Walls Lesley
- Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability Vol 237, pp. 858-867 (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1748006X211059417
- A performance-centred approach to optimising maintenance of complex systems
- Barlow E, Bedford T, Revie M, Tan J, Walls L
- European Journal of Operational Research Vol 292, pp. 579-595 (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2020.11.005
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Professional Activities
- European Safety and Reliability Conference ESREL 2016
- Chair
- 2016
- European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2013
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 2013
- International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) (External organisation)
- Member
- 2013
- International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 2011
- International Conference on Quality and Reliability
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 2011
- Consultancy with Doosan Babcock Power Systems
- Advisor
- 2010
Projects
- Technology Innovation in Defence-platform Energy-efficiency
- Turan, Osman (Principal Investigator) Aktas, Batuhan (Co-investigator) Atlar, Mehmet (Co-investigator) Barlow, Euan (Co-investigator) Boulougouris, Evangelos (Co-investigator) Jennett, Kyle (Co-investigator) Paton, Steve (Co-investigator) Revie, Matthew (Co-investigator) Seth, Sampan (Co-investigator) Tapinos, Efstathios (Co-investigator) Theotokatos, Gerasimos (Co-investigator) Walls, Lesley (Co-investigator) Wright, George (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jul-2023 - 30-Jun-2026
- HYPOBATT Hyper powered vessel battery charging system (Horizon Europe)
- Walls, Lesley (Principal Investigator) Revie, Matthew (Co-investigator) Tapinos, Efstathios (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jun-2022 - 30-Nov-2025
- Nunavut Search and Rescue (NSAR) Project: Supporting Inuit Health and Well-Being, Food Security, Economic Development, and Community Resilience
- Quigley, John (Principal Investigator) Howick, Susan (Co-investigator) Walls, Lesley (Co-investigator) Wright, George (Co-investigator)
- 06-May-2022 - 05-May-2025
- Deep Transfer learning for Diagnosis, Prognosis and Maintenance of Sludge Bulking in Wastewater Treatment (International Exchange Cost Share)
- Walls, Lesley (Principal Investigator) Liu, Bin (Co-investigator)
- 30-Mar-2021 - 29-Mar-2023
- KTP - JWF Process Solutions Ltd. Business model transition from sensor supply, to provision of a software-based data and information service sales solution.
- Paton, Steve (Principal Investigator) Sminia, Harry (Co-investigator) Wallace, William (Co-investigator) Walls, Lesley (Co-investigator)
- 01-Mar-2021 - 28-Feb-2023
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | Johnson, Karl
- Patelli, Edoardo (Principal Investigator) Walls, Lesley (Co-investigator) Johnson, Karl (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Oct-2020 - 01-Jul-2024