Dr Graeme West
Reader
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Personal statement
I am a Reader in the department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, having been appointed through the Chancellor's Fellowship scheme. My research interests lie in the area of intelligent decision support, primarily for applications in the Energy Industry, and with a particular focus on through lifetime management of nuclear power generation assets. This covers a broad range of disciplines ranging from artificial intelligence, machine learning, & data analytics through to image and video processing. Application areas include inspection, condition monitoring, diagnostics and prognostics of plant items, both from individual asset and fleet wide perspectives. I am an academic lead in the University’s Advanced Nuclear Research Centre (ANRC).
My current projects at the University include improving understanding of the graphite reactor cores of Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors (AGR) through analysis of refuelling data (EDF Energy), Automated sizing and classification of defects in CANDU reactor pressure tubes (Bruce Power), improved visual inspection of AGR fuel channel bricks (EDF Energy) and visual inspection of steel pipe work in the nuclear industry (NNL, Sellafield, WideBlue, Inspecta-hire).
Area of Expertise
- Intelligent Systems and Artificial Intelligence
- Data Analytics and Machine Learning
- Condition Monitoring, Diagnostics and Prognostics
- Nuclear power generation instrumentation and control
Publications
- Optimizing fuel selection in CANDU reactors
- Devereux Michael, West Graeme, Barlow Euan, Revie Matthew, Young Andrew
- 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)
- 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
- Enhancing remaining useful life predictions for nuclear reactor filters using knowledge models
- Manning Callum Paul, Young Andrew, West Graeme, McArthur Stephen
- Universities’ Nuclear Technology Forum 2024 (2024)
- Enhanced video-level anomaly feature detection for nuclear power plant component inspections using the latency mechanism
- Fei Zhouxiang, Manning Callum, West Graeme M, Murray Paul, Dobie Gordon
- Nuclear Technology Vol 210, pp. 2404-2418 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2024.2337282
Teaching
I am 2nd Year Adviser of Studies for the BEng/MEng Electronic and Electrical Engineering undergraduate degree courses.
i am module registrar for EM501: Fifth Year Group Projects for the MEng Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Students.
I am responsible for the 2nd year EE/EM271 Sensor and Signal Processing Laboratory where the students design and build an instrument for measuring the thickness of steel using an ultrasonic transducer.
I am module registrar for the 3rd Year EM310: Signal and Systems course which covers the concepts and analysis of signals in both the time and frequency domains in the context of both analogue and discrete (digital) domains, baoth in terms of mathematical analysis and practical systems.
I teach a 5-week module on "Intelligent Condition Monitoring" as part of ME507 Machinery Diagnosis and Condition Monitoring.
Research Interests
My research interests are in the design and application of artificial intelligence techniques to support the management of key engineering assets in a number of industries. I have a particular focus in nuclear power generation applications and my research supports EDF Energy, who run and maintain the UK's Civil nuclear power stations, in analysing data that comes from their graphite reactor cores.
Professional Activities
- Joint CA/UK/US Workshop - Exploring Research Collaboration on Sustainability of Nuclear Power Plants
- Participant
- 21/5/2024
- AI UK 2024
- Participant
- 19/3/2024
- Industrial AI – the application of AI and Data Science to Support Outages
- Speaker
- 17/1/2024
- US-UK Workshop on Transformation in Urban Underground Infrastructure
- Participant
- 28/9/2023
- Generative AI for Engineering
- Speaker
- 19/9/2023
- Enhanced Video-Level Anomaly Feature Detection for Nuclear Power Plant Component Inspections Using the Latency Mechanism
- Contributor
- 17/7/2023
Projects
- ANRC_C_BC&BP_65_b Nuclear Analytics support (Studentship Contribution only) (CPM 19744)
- West, Graeme (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Oct-2024 - 30-Sep-2027
- AI for SNM Inspection (CDT in Applied Photonics) | Calder, Brandon
- Murray, Paul (Principal Investigator) West, Graeme (Co-investigator) Calder, Brandon (Research Co-investigator)
- 11-Sep-2023 - 11-Sep-2027
- Turing Network Development Call
- McArthur, Stephen (Principal Investigator) West, Graeme (Co-investigator)
- 01-Feb-2022 - 30-Sep-2022
- NNL Gamechangers GC_142 Phase 5 (Linked to 191761) Image Processing for Enhanced Visualisation
- Murray, Paul (Principal Investigator) Marshall, Stephen (Co-investigator) West, Graeme (Co-investigator) Zabalza, Jaime (Co-investigator)
- 18-Oct-2021 - 31-May-2022
- KTP - ICR Integrity
- West, Graeme (Principal Investigator) McArthur, Stephen (Co-investigator)
- 27-Jan-2020 - 26-Jan-2022
- Image Processing for Enhanced Visual Inspection of Nuclear Waste Packages GC142 Phase 2
- Murray, Paul (Principal Investigator) Marshall, Stephen (Co-investigator) Ren, Jinchang (Co-investigator) West, Graeme (Co-investigator) Zabalza, Jaime (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 30-Apr-2021
Contact
Dr
Graeme
West
Reader
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Email: graeme.west@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3542