Professor Tim Watson

Professor Tim Watson is the Director of the Cyber Institute at Loughborough University and Director of Defence and Security at The Alan Turing Institute.

With more than thirty years' experience working with government, industry and in academia, he has been involved with a wide range of programmes, several high-profile projects and has acted as a consultant for some of the largest telecoms, power and transport companies. He is an adviser to various parts of the UK government and to several professional and standards bodies.

Tim's research combines AI and cyber security and includes GCHQ-funded projects building AI-based synthetic environments and user simulators, FCDO research on smart cities, vehicles and anomaly detection, EU-funded projects on detecting and combating cyber crime, UK MoD research on automated defence, identifying insider threats and countering improvised explosive devices, and UKRI-funded research on the protection of critical national infrastructure.