About me
Dr James Sharp is a Senior Principal Scientist at Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), the UK Ministry of Defence’s in-government S&T organisation. He has previously provided independent technical evaluation to UK Defence Aerospace, and has over a decade of experience on the use of software and complex electronic hardware in safety and mission critical systems. Presently, he leads the UK’s Future of Compute for Defence project that canvases, identifies, and assesses emerging novel and unconventional hardware accelerators, and their supportive software stacks. James works across UK government to coherently advance the UK’s skills sector alongside its full stack compute research portfolios. He maintains active research into assurance frameworks and verification techniques for both existing and new/novel hardware devices and software approaches. This research is driven by the need to ensure that UK Defence is able to securely and robustly exploit the latest advancements in compute into modern warfighting, providing a technological advantage.
