Dr. Charles Fox is a University Academic Fellow in Vehicle and Road Automation at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds. He researches autonomous off-road, on-road, and road-side perception, control and data analytics systems, using primarily Bayesian methods. Recent projects include IBEX2 off-road autonomous agricultural vehicles, featured in The Times and on the Discovery Channel; INTERACT pedestrian detection analytics for autonomous vehicles, with BMW; UDRIVE data mining of manual car driving big data to identify causes of dangerous driving, with Volvo; and Automated Number Plate Recognition analytics for Mouchel and the Highways Agency. Dr. Fox holds a first class MA degree in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge, MSc with Distinction in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh, and a DPhil in Pattern Analysis and Machine Learning from the Robotics Research Group at the University of Oxford. He has workedas a researcher in robotics and data-driven speech recognition at the University of Sheffield for users including the BBC, NHS and GCHQ, and as a high frequency data-driven trader for London hedge fund Algometrics Ltd. He has published 50 conference and journal papers cited 800 times and has h-index 15. He is a director of Ibex Automation Ltd which advises hedge fund and venture capital clients and is available for consultancy and R&D work in Data Science and Robotics.
