Professor Stephen McArthur
Principal
Principal's Office
Personal statement
Stephen McArthur is Principal and Vice-Chancellor at the 吃瓜tv. He also holds the position of Distinguished Professor of Intelligent Energy Systems. His main area of expertise is applying artificial intelligence in power and energy systems. He has delivered solutions for a range of smart grid, asset management and data analytic challenges. His research now concerns the customisation of artificial intelligence techniques combined with distributed intelligence architectures to provide decision support for energy and wider industrial applications.听
Professor McArthur won the 2021 IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award for outstanding contributions in industrial systems engineering, 鈥渇or innovative contributions to the advancement of intelligent systems for power engineering applications鈥�.
He was the Principal Investigator leading the UKRI EnergyREV programme. This brought together 22 universities and 32 investigators to deliver novel research and innovation aimed at accelerating the uptake, value and impact of Smart Local Energy Systems. EnergyREV was a key component of the UK Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund鈥檚 Prospering from the Energy Revolution (PFER) programme. PFER championed investable and scalable local business models using integrated approaches to deliver cleaner and cheaper energy services.
He was also the Director of the joint 吃瓜tv and Imperial College EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Power Networks and Smart Grids. This trained doctoral level engineers who can realise the future low carbon smart grid. Professor McArthur was also Academic Director of the Advanced Nuclear Research Centre at 吃瓜tv, which delivers academic and industry collaborative programmes focused on plant lifetime extension and improved operations in the nuclear industry.听
As co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Bellrock Technology, he has helped design and create the Deckchair product. This supports the effective and rapid deployment of intelligent system, AI and data analytic products and services, and is being used by customers across eight different industry sectors including energy, healthcare and rail transport.
Prize And Awards
- Recipient
- 6/2020
- Recipient
- 2016
- Recipient
- 7/2010
- Recipient
- 7/2008
Publications
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- Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy Vol 240, pp. 61-84 (2026)
- , , , , , , Lu Ernest, Forbes Alistair,
- Measurement: Energy Vol 8 (2025)
- , , , Vidhyasankar Sakuntala Devi, Kirk Damon,
- 2025 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT EUROPE) IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe 2025 (2025)
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- 2025 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT Europe) IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe 2025 (2025)
- , , , , , , Kennedy Chris, Barpugga Harpreet
- Sixth Annual Conference on Disruptive, Innovative, and Emerging Technologies in the Nuclear Industry: DIET 2025 (2025)
- , Irwin Fiona, de la Barba Luis, Holton Allan, Jones Dan, Terret-Hensman Rob, Wilson Gordon, , , , ,
- CIGRE 2025 International Symposium (2025)
Teaching
My teaching activities cover intelligent systems, distributed intelligence in power systems, smart grids, condition monitoring, and diagnostic systems.
Research Interests
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) and intelligent system applications in听 the power and energy fields
- Industrial application of AI, data science and data analytics
- Condition monitoring, diagnostics and prognostics for equipment, plant and power networks
- Distributed intelligence in electric power systems, active network management and Smart Grids
- Nuclear power plant monitoring, diagnosis, prediction, and lifetime extension
- Intelligent system methods: knowledge based systems; model based reasoning; machine learning
- Multi-Agent Systems and Intelligent Agents: multi-agent methods, models, techniques and architectures for power engineering applications
- Explainable AI
- Decision support environments
Professional Activities
- Speaker
- 2/11/2024
- Participant
- 29/5/2024
- Advisor
- 1/1/2024
- Advisor
- 1/3/2023
- Participant
- 24/11/2022
- Visiting researcher
- 1/1/2022
Projects
- West, Graeme (Principal Investigator) McArthur, Stephen (Co-investigator) Pathak, Jagriti (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 01-Jan-2028
- Stewart, Brian (Principal Investigator) McArthur, Stephen (Co-investigator) Stephen, Bruce (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 15-Jan-2024
- Stephen, Bruce (Principal Investigator) Akartunali, Kerem (Co-investigator) Brown, Blair David (Co-investigator) McArthur, Stephen (Co-investigator) Riccardi, Annalisa (Co-investigator) Stewart, Brian (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2026
- Stewart, Brian (Principal Investigator) McArthur, Stephen (Co-investigator) Stephen, Bruce (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2026
- Stephen, Bruce (Principal Investigator) Brown, Blair David (Co-investigator) McArthur, Stephen (Co-investigator) Cassidy, Maria (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2027
- Sherlock, Andrew (Principal Investigator) McArthur, Stephen (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2025
Contact
Professor
Stephen
McArthur
Principal
Principal's Office
Email: s.mcarthur@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2485