Contact Dr Ken McNaught
- Email: k.r.mcnaught@cranfield.ac.uk
Areas of expertise
- Operational Analysis and Simulation
- Safety, Resilience, Risk & Reliability
Background
Dr Ken McNaught is a Senior Lecturer in operational research, with expertise in probabilistic decision analysis, particularly Bayesian networks and decision network influence diagrams, and in simulation modelling.
Ken has a BSc (Hons.) in Physics and Astronomy from Glasgow University, an MSc in Operational Research from Strathclyde University and a PhD in Operational Research from Â鶹´«Ã½AV. He spent almost three years in the automotive industry with Austin Rover before joining Cranfield in 1988.
Current activities
Ken's research interests encompass:
probabilistic approaches such as Bayesian networks, influence diagram decision networks, decision trees, Markovian models and probabilistic risk analysis
simulation including system dynamics, hybrid simulation and statistical aspects of simulation modelling.
Ken works in application areas as diverse as:
reliability, maintenance and risk
fault diagnosis and prognostic modelling
intelligence analysis and course of action assessment
adversarial risk analysis
deception detection
information fusion
value of information assessment
emergency preparedness.
Recent EPSRC funded projects have included
Making Sense - concerned with decision support in the intelligence analysis domain
KT Box - where Ken's contribution was concerned with predictive maintenance modelling.
Ken currently supervises three PhD students and is the Postgraduate Research Coordinator for science and engineering students at Â鶹´«Ã½AV at Shrivenham.
Clients
EPSRC
Dstl
Centre for Defence Enterprise (formerly the MOD's Research Acquisition Organisation)
Defence Equipment and Support
Optimized Systems and Solutions (OSyS)
BAE Systems
Royal Norwegian Navy
