Kevin Warwick – Keynote Speaker

Professor Kevin Warwick is Emeritus Professor at Coventry and Reading Universities. His areas of research interests include artificial intelligence, biomedical engineering, control, robotics and cyborgs.

One of Warwick’s areas of research addresses the need for a clear interface linking a biological brain directly with computer technology. He explores how the use of implant and electrode technology can be employed to create biological brains for robots, to enable human enhancement by creating Cyborgs and to diminish the effects of certain neural illnesses and the end result of increasing the range of abilities of the recipients.

Previously Warwick was Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) at Coventry University and Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading including periods as Head of Department and Head of the School of Engineering and Information.

Warwick is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and a Fellow of the City and Guilds of London Institute. He is a Visiting Professor at the Czech Technical University, Prague, Strathclyde University and Reading University. In 2004 he was Senior Beckman Fellow at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA.

He is on the advisory board of the Instinctive Computing Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh and the Centre for Intermedia, Exeter University. In 2000 Kevin presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.

Warwick is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He has also been awarded higher doctorates (DScs) by Imperial College and the Czech Academy of Sciences as well as receiving seven Honorary Doctorates from UK Universities, including one from Coventry. He has been awarded the IEE Achievement Award, the IET Mountbatten Medal and the Ellison-Cliffe medal of the Royal Society of Medicine.