Rob Wortham
Executive Director at Global Digital Foundation
Bath, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Wortham is an interdisciplinary technology leader combining 37 years of hands-on engineering with academic rigour as a PhD-qualified researcher in robot autonomy, transparency and ethics. Currently Executive Director of the International AI Governance Association and Director of AI at the Global Digital Foundation, he helps shape international AI standards and policy while maintaining active roles in BSI, CEN/CENELEC and IEEE working groups. A Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the BCS and HEA, he bridges chip- and hardware-level design through to software, systems architecture and autonomous system safety, and he has led MSc teaching and research at the University of Bath. Known for mentoring and translating complex technical issues for board-level decision making, he also founded a robotics company and contributes scholarly peer review on human-robot interaction—bringing an uncommon mix of practical engineering, standards influence and ethical scholarship to AI governance.
10 years of coding experience
PhD Intelligent Systems, Robot Autonomy, Transparency & Ethics, PhD Intelligent Systems, Robot Autonomy, Transparency & Ethics at University of BathThe Herschel High School, Slough
French, German, c/c++, java, python, latex
Github Skills (9)
planning3
robotics3
robot3
ros3
ignition2
python2
robotics-simulation2
java1
perception1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rwortham/R5
May 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
rwortham/Instinct
May 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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