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Prof Tim Dodwell

Professor in Machine Learning

 T.Dodwell@exeter.ac.uk

 (Streatham) 5899

 01392 725899

Overview

Professor Tim Dodwell leads the Data Centric Engineering Group at Exeter and is the co-founder and CTO of digiLab. At the university he holds a personal chair in Machine Learning which straddles the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute of Data Science and AI.

He currently holds a prestigious 5 year Turing AI Fellowship with the Alan Turing Institute and is the Romberg Visiting Professorship at Heidelberg in Scientific Computing. Externally he is on the editorial board for  Proceedings of Royal Society London A, SIAM Journal of Uncertainty Quantification  and Computer Physics Communications.

At Exeter in his academic career, his interdisciplinary Data Centric Engineering Group does leading research at the dynamic interface between applied mathematics, probabilistic machine learning and high-performance scientific computing. Spanning all aspects of research from fundamental theory in data science and AI to applied industrial focused digital twin projects. He is particularly know for his work on Multilevel Methods in Bayesian Inverse Problems, Generative Hyrbid Modelling and Machine Learning in Safety Critical Engineering

At digiLab, a fast growing Exeter deep tech startup, Tim is trailblazing the tech vision. Something digiLab calls 'How to do AI in the wild?'. On this front digiLab does three core activities.

  • digiLab focus on building first of a kind solutions for challenging AI problems in sustainability. Currently we are working in Nuclear Fusion, Air Traffic Control, Nuclear Decommission, Aerospace Materials, Water Treatement and Urban Solar Farms.
  • digiLab  are building a general, easy to use, Machine Learning Platform called twinLab. twinLab enables engineers to access state of the art Machine Learning tools, without the need for lengthy method development, software engineering and testing. We do that bit! It has demonstrated 60k fold speed up in intelligent reducing simulation times, and a time-to-value in ML adopt of 90% to our key early adopters.
  • digiLab are passionate educators, and are currently building a dynamic ML academy, with the aim of training the best ML practioners. From Summer 2023, this will include datacamps, tailored business machine learning courses, data science internships and online training course. Look out for our insights blog - this week with an article on "supervised vs unsupervised learning"

Look out for Machine Learning Jobs @digiLab as they get posted on the company site - here.


Academic Bio.

Tim obtain a 1st class honours for a BSc in Mathematics at the University of Bath (2004-2008). During his degree he took a year out to develop stochastic models for exotic options pricing while working in the city. He then obtained a PhD in Applied Mathematics (2009-2012) at the Bath Institute of Complex Systems. During this time he studied variational models for understanding complex materials (supervised by Prof Giles Hunt and Prof Mark Peletier). For 18 months following his PhD, he worked on a joint project with GKN Aerospace on modelling the formation of defects during manufacturing of composites. Since then he had a series of fellowship awards, which have spanned his research interests in mathematical modelling, multiscale methods, Bayesian inverse problems, high performance numerical solvers and now probabilistic machine learning.

  • Prize Fellowship in Engineering Mathematics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath, 2013-2015
  • Pro Vice Chancellors Fellowship in Engineering Mathematics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Exeter, 2015-2018.
  • Turing AI Fellow, The Alan Turing Institute and  University of Exeter, 2019-2024.


These fellowships have matched his academic progression,

  • Lecturer (Bath, 2013-2015)
  • Senior Lecturer (Exeter, 2015-2019)
  • Full Professor (Exeter 2019-present).

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Publications

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2022

  • Bénézech J, Seelinger L, Bastian P, Butler R, Dodwell T, Ma C, Scheichl R. (2022) Scalable multiscale-spectral GFEM with an application to composite aero-structures. [PDF]

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

  • Butler R, Rhead A, Dodwell T. (2017) Optimum design and damage tolerance of compressively loaded laminates, Comprehensive Composite Materials II, 118-135, DOI:10.1016/B978-0-12-803581-8.10060-8.
  • Reinarz A, Dodwell T, Fletcher T, Butler R, Scheichl R. (2017) Multiscale modelling of lamination defects in curved structures, ICCM International Conferences on Composite Materials, volume 2017-August.
  • Erland S, Dodwell TJ, Butler R. (2017) Characterising the influence of fibre angle on the bending ofuncured carbon fibre prepreg, ICCM International Conferences on Composite Materials, volume 2017-August.
  • Dodwell TJ, Sandhu A, Scheichl R. (2017) Customized coarse models for highly heterogeneous materials, Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering, volume 0, pages 577-584, DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-56397-8_72.
  • Paesold MK, Dodwell TJ, Hunt GW. (2017) Interplay between symmetry and anti-symmetry in the evolution of localized buckle patterns, Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering, volume 0, pages 517-527, DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-56397-8_65.
  • Erland S, Dodwell TJ, Butler R. (2017) Characterisation of bending mechanics in uncured laminated materials using a modified Dynamic Mechanical Analysis. [PDF]
  • Reinarz A, Dodwell T, Fletcher T, Seelinger L, Butler R, Scheichl R. (2017) dune-composites -- A New Framework for High-Performance Finite Element Modelling of Laminates, Composite Structures, volume 1, no. 4, pages 269-278. [PDF]

2016

  • Sandhu A, Dodwell TJ, Butler R. (2016) An automated image processing algorithm to determine wrinkle characteristics from B-scans, ECCM 2016 - Proceeding of the 17th European Conference on Composite Materials.
  • Fletcher TA, Reinarz AK, Dodwell TJ, Butler R, Scheichl R, Newley R. (2016) Efficient modelling and accurate certification of curved aerospace laminates, ECCM 2016 - Proceeding of the 17th European Conference on Composite Materials.
  • Dodwell TJ, Evans KE, Ghita O, Sandhu AS, Savage L. (2016) Quantifying variability of recycled fibres in composites using multilevel Monte Carlo, ECCM 2016 - Proceeding of the 17th European Conference on Composite Materials.
  • Erland S, Dodwell TJ, Butler R. (2016) The influence of fibre angle and resin properties on uncured interply shear, ECCM 2016 - Proceeding of the 17th European Conference on Composite Materials.
  • Fletcher TA, Reinarz AK, Dodwell TJ, Butler R, Scheichl R, Newley R. (2016) Efficient modelling and accurate certification of curved aerospace laminates, ECCM 2016 - Proceeding of the 17th European Conference on Composite Materials.
  • Dodwell TJ, Evans KE, Ghita O, Sandhu AS, Savage L. (2016) Quantifying variability of recycled fibres in composites using multilevel Monte Carlo, ECCM 2016 - Proceeding of the 17th European Conference on Composite Materials.
  • Erland S, Dodwell TJ, Butler R. (2016) The influence of fibre angle and resin properties on uncured interply shear, ECCM 2016 - Proceeding of the 17th European Conference on Composite Materials.
  • Sandhu A, Dodwell TJ, Butler R. (2016) An automated image processing algorithm to determine wrinkle characteristics from B-scans, ECCM 2016 - Proceeding of the 17th European Conference on Composite Materials.
  • Dodwell TJ, Butler R, Rhead AT. (2016) Optimum fiber steering of composite plates for buckling and manufacturability, AIAA Journal, volume 54, no. 3, pages 1139-1142, DOI:10.2514/1.J054297.
  • Fletcher TA, Kim T, Dodwell TJ, Butler R, Scheichl R, Newley R. (2016) Resin treatment of free edges to aid certification of through thickness laminate strength, Composite Structures, volume 146, pages 26-33, DOI:10.1016/j.compstruct.2016.02.074.

2015

  • Fletcher TA, Butler R, Dodwell TJ. (2015) Anti-symmetric laminates for improved consolidation and reduced warp of tapered C-sections, Advanced Manufacturing: Polymer and Composites Science, volume 1, no. 2, pages 105-111, DOI:10.1179/2055035914Y.0000000010.
  • Dodwell TJ, Erland S, Butler R. (2015) A cosserat continuum model for uncured composite laminates with applications to ply wrinkle formation, ICCM International Conferences on Composite Materials, volume 2015-July.
  • Fletcher TA, Kim T, Dodwell TJ, Butler R, Scheichl R, Newley R. (2015) The influence of free edges on curved beam strength, ICCM International Conferences on Composite Materials, volume 2015-July.
  • Erland S, Dodwell TJ, Butler R. (2015) Viscoelastic inter-ply slip in uncured laminates: Experimental characterisation and modelling, ICCM International Conferences on Composite Materials, volume 2015-July.
  • Dodwell TJ. (2015) Internal wrinkling instabilities in layered media, Philosophical Magazine, volume 95, no. 28-30, pages 3225-3243, DOI:10.1080/14786435.2015.1034221.
  • Butler R, Dodwell TJ, Kim T, Kynaston S, Scheichl R, Haftka RT, Kim NH. (2015) Uncertainty quantification of composite structures with defects using multilevel monte carlo simulations, 17th AIAA Non-Deterministic Approaches Conference.
  • Kim T, Fletcher T, Dodwell T, Butler R, Scheichl R, Ankersen J, Newley R. (2015) The effect of free edges on inter-laminar performance of curved laminates, 56th AIAA/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference.
  • Erland S, Dodwell TJ, Butler R. (2015) Characterisation of inter-ply shear in uncured carbon fibre prepreg, Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, volume 77, pages 210-218, DOI:10.1016/j.compositesa.2015.07.008.
  • Dodwell TJ, Ketelsen C, Scheichl R, Teckentrup AL. (2015) A Hierarchical Multilevel Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithm with Applications to Uncertainty Quantification in Subsurface Flow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

2014

2013

2012

  • Dodwell TJ, Hunt GW. (2012) Convoluted accommodation structures in folded rocks, Philosophical Magazine, volume 92, no. 28-30, pages 3418-3438, DOI:10.1080/14786435.2012.685771.
  • Rhead AT, Dodwell TJ, Butler R. (2012) The effect of tow gaps on compression after impact strength of AFP laminates, ECCM 2012 - Composites at Venice, Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Composite Materials.

2011

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