Mr Richard Bowyer

Richard is a graduate of Adelaide University in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and a senior academic at Flinders University. Prior to joining Flinders University 9 years ago, he commenced his 24 year defence career with Aerospace Technologies of Australia in Melbourne designing the upgraded control system for the Jindivik remotely-piloted target jet aircraft for Navy. He later moved to Electronic Warfare Divison/DSTO, Edinburgh. Richard was a key contributor to the development of photonic and parallel processing systems for wideband radar pulse processing and threat identifiction. He participated in Project Echidna, Air 5416 for the C-130J Hercules Electronic Warfare and self Protection upgrade, evaluating the SPS-1000 RWR. Richard's research into complex adaptive systems was pivotal in the success of defence's autonomous-UAV systems program. Richard managed the NICTA/DSTO agreement and collaborated with Professor Brian Anderson AC on self-organising systems research. Moving to Land Warfare Division for LAND125 Integrated Soldier Systems Project, conducting vulnerability analysis of soldier communications and Bushmaster vehicle systems, and other systems in the battlespace. He conducting research into methods to detect IEDs. Richard is an expert in Electronic Warfare Systems and Ethics applied to autonomous systems in the battlespace. Richard’s research includes multi-sensor data fusion, ethical autonomy, cooperative intelligent systems and safe emergent behaviour in autonomous systems and a contributing author for The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems. Richard has been a senior adjunct lecturer with UNISA and Flinders University and supervised Honours, Masters and PhD students at all three universities in SA in the area of distributed intelligent control systems. Richard is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, a Member of Engineers Australia, a Member of the Systems Engineering Society of Australia, and The International Council of System Engineering(INCOSE). He is a long-standing academic contributor to the National Youth Science Forum, and a Rotarian.