Professor of Industrial AI

AI that works in the real world — governed, delivered, trusted.

I help organisations turn AI ambition into responsible systems and measurable outcomes — from strategy and governance to hands-on delivery across healthcare, defence, FinTech, public safety and education.

Proven track record in AI integration, not just AI hype
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academic staff led across teaching & research
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external consultancy projects delivered
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Startups advised on AI strategy
Who I work with

Bridging AI research, organisational strategy and delivery.

Academic depth, hands-on delivery. My focus is helping people integrate AI responsibly: not just selecting tools, but aligning data, governance, culture, skills and measurable outcomes.

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For businesses

AI readiness, strategic direction, LLM integration, guardrails, governance, risk assessment and practical implementation pathways.

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For researchers

Applied AI collaborations in healthcare, predictive analytics, signal processing, cyber security, responsible AI and interdisciplinary funding bids.

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For teams

Support for leaders, technical teams and mixed stakeholder groups who need to understand what AI can realistically — and safely — do.

Award-Winning Work

AI that can be integrated, governed and trusted.

My work is strongest where AI has to meet real-world constraints: clinical settings, regulatory expectations, data security, organisational change, public trust and commercially meaningful outcomes.

  • GenAI, LLM testing and guardrail deployment
  • AI-enhanced consulting, FinTech and public safety applications
  • Healthcare AI, medical image analysis and outcome prediction
  • Predictive analytics, anomaly detection and dashboards
  • AI governance, ethics, GDPR and data security
Professor Iain Rice receiving an award
Awarded Role Model for Knowledge Exchange by BCU.
Selected work

Getting Real Value from AI.

A sample of industrial and research collaborations. Artefacts, dashboards and case materials are added here as they become shareable.

HealthcareRAPID — Real-time Analytics for Paediatric Intensive Care — project artefact
Birmingham Children's Hospital · 2015–17

RAPID — Real-time Analytics for Paediatric Intensive Care

On-ward predictive analytics identifying at-risk children — providing up to 12 hours advance warning of cardiac arrest, with whole-ward visual analytics mapping patient deterioration.

Predictive analyticsClinical AIVisual analytics
Machine LearningAdversarial Machine Learning — project artefact
Birmingham City University · 2023–26

Adversarial Machine Learning

PhD Project with Ziad Ali & Atif Azad demonstrating adversarial attacks against state-of-the-art AI algorithms. Published in CVPR.

Machine LearningAdversarial AttacksComputer Vision
Public safetySafer Streets — Crime Pattern Analytics — project artefact
Our Safer City · City of London Police · 2024-26

Safer Streets — Crime Pattern Analytics

Chief Data Scientist role: predictive analytics and dashboards identifying crime patterns and safe walking routes, helping reduce violence against women and girls (VAWG).

Predictive policingDashboardsPublic safety
Cybersecurity / CloudGenAI Customer Support Platform — project artefact
METCloud · 2023–26

GenAI Customer Support Platform

KTP Lead for a GenAI customer-support solution delivering measurable operational efficiencies for a cloud services provider — from guardrail design to deployment.

GenAILLM guardrailsCustomer operations
From our first meeting with Iain, it was clear he understood how companies and consultancy worked, and how best to interact with us. His ability to grasp the value held in our data and how it is used allowed him to explain why the solution to our problems was not merely an AI application, as others had insinuated, but rather a problem of data visualisation. The quick turn-around and business-focussed approach was not what we had come to expect from an academic institution and should be templated in other areas.
Stuart EwenCEO, Mindset Associates

Let's discuss your AI challenge

Whether you need strategy, delivery or both — I'd love to hear about what you're working on.