Stephen McArthur

Stephen McArthur is Associate Principal and Executive Dean of Engineering at the University of Strathclyde.

His main area of expertise is applying artificial intelligence in power and energy systems. He has delivered intelligent system solutions for a range of smart grid, asset management and data analytic challenges. His research now concerns the customisation of artificial intelligence techniques combined with distributed intelligence architectures to provide trusted decision support for energy and wider industrial applications.

He won the 2021 IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award for outstanding contributions in industrial systems engineering, “for innovative contributions to the advancement of intelligent systems for power engineering applications”.

As Chief Technology Officer of Bellrock Technology, he has helped design and create the Lumen product. This supports the effective and rapid deployment of intelligent system and data analytic products and services, and is being used by customers across eight different industry sectors including energy, healthcare and rail transport.