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
- Elected Fellow of the UK Safety and Reliability Society
- Recipient
- 2008
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Publications
- Designing a Bayesian urgency assessment tool for search and rescue in the Canadian Arctic
- Peters Joshua, Quigley John, Rudman Archie, Belton Ian, Howick Susan, Kikkert Peter, Walls Lesley
- Proceedings of the 22nd ISCRAM Conference ISCRAM 2025 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.59297/zgw11c50
- Risk modelling for remote communities : an Inuit-driven Bayesian network approach to enhance search and rescue operations in Arctic Canada
- Belton Ian, Quigley John, Rudman Archie, Kikkert Peter, Howick Susan, Walls Lesley
- Proceedings of the 22nd ISCRAM Conference ISCRAM 2025 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.59297/bz4zhp86
- 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
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Professional Activities
- What do I Not Know? AI, Risk and Probation
- Participant
- 12/3/2025
- Justice Leaders Workshop: AI and Risk Decision-Making
- Member of programme committee
- 1/11/2024
- European Safety and Reliability Conference ESREL 2016
- Chair
- 2016
- International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) (External organisation)
- Member
- 2013
- European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2013
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 2013
- International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 2011
Projects
- COst Forecasting Framework with Expert and Analogous Data (COFFEAD)
- Quigley, John (Principal Investigator) Liu, Bin (Co-investigator) Revie, Matthew (Co-investigator) Walls, Lesley (Co-investigator)
- 15-Jan-2024 - 15-Jan-2026
- 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-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2026
- HYPOBATT Hyper powered vessel battery charging system (Horizon Europe)
- Walls, Lesley (Principal Investigator) Revie, Matthew (Co-investigator) Tapinos, Efstathios (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-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-Jan-2022 - 05-Jan-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-Jan-2021 - 29-Jan-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-Jan-2021 - 28-Jan-2023