PROFESSOR DOROTHY MONEKOSSO is Director of Research at Leeds Beckett University. Dorothy holds a Ph.D. (2000) in Space Systems Autonomy (autonomous spacecraft) from the Surrey Space Centre, a Master’s in Satellite Engineering and a Bachelor's in Electronic Engineering. She began her career in the space sector, developing onboard computers and control systems for spacecraft. She became interested in Artificial Intelligence during her research at the Surrey Space Centre, applying machine learning methods and techniques to spacecraft autonomy. On the basis of this work, she was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering, Engineering Foresight Award and spent a year at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena California. Her current research interests are applications of machine learning to intelligent systems. She has led several digital health and assistive technologies projects funded by Innovate UK, European Commission, Royal Academy of Engineering, DAIWA, and security projects funded USA Department of Homeland Security and coed several security projects funded under national and international programmes. Dorothy is currently Leeds Beckett PI for an H2020 Internet of Things project MONICA: Management Of Networked IoT Wearables - Very Large Scale Demonstration of Cultural Societal Applications. Dorothy has authored and co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals.