Prof. Peter McBurney

Peter McBurney is Professor of Computer Science and former Head of the Department of Informatics in the Faculty of Natural and Mathematical Sciences of King's College London. He is a member of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) Research Group of the Department. His work finds application in computational finance and economics, cyber conflict, and machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. Since 2007, McBurney has been Joint Editor-in-Chief of the refereed AI journal, The Knowledge Engineering Review, published by Cambridge University Press. He is a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), a board established in 2018 to provide advice on AI, data analytics and regulatory technology (regtech). During 2018-2020, he is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Law Futures Centre at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. McBurney is a regular speaker and advisor on Artificial Intelligence, on blockchains & distributed ledgers, and on cryptocurrencies. He has experience working on several blockchain Proofs-of-Concept, including for major financial institutions and commodities trading companies. His current research projects include the EPSRC-funded VOLT Project, which is developing trusted voting systems using distributed ledger technologies for management of shareholder rights and for elections in non-government organizations.