DrDeeph Chana

Professor of Practice, Imperial college Business School
Co-DIRECTOR, Institute for Security Science and technology
Co-director, Centre for financial technology


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Deeph has extensive experience of working on world leading STEM in academia, industry and government. He is Professor of Practice within Imperial's Business School, Co-Director of the Institute for Security Science Technology and is co-founder of the UK-Goverment funded Research Institute in Trustworthy Industrial Control Systems and Imperial's FinTech Network of Excellence.

He is the founder of a STEM consultancy specialising in enterprise technology and critical-infrastructure applications and has been involved in numerous successful commercial technology projects in the private sector. Deeph has worked on a broad range of applied and theoretical research topics including, inverse problems, image processing, optical data storage, antenna design, diabetic retinopathy, computational modelling of space debris, explosives detection, crowd analysis and machine learning for cyber-security.

Deeph previously worked as a senior science and technology official within the UK Government: leading international STEM diplomacy initiatives; directing and funding national security research programmes; and setting national technology policy, standards and regulation. He has delivered advice to four Secretaries of State and served as chairman on numerous high-profile national and international technology working groups.

He has established national and international research calls in science and technology and has acted as a board member and bid reviewer for programmes in the Home Office, the US Department of Homeland Security and the EU’s Framework Programme for Research.

Deeph holds MSci and PhD degrees in Physics from King’s College London.


SELECTED PROJECTS

Co-Director: Institute for Security Science and Technology (ISST):

Co-Director: Centre for Financial Technology (supported by Citi):

Chair: NATO Advisory Group on Emerging and Disruptive Technologies

Co-Director: SPRITE Nework on Security, Privacy & Trust in the Digital Economy:

Co-Director and co-founder: Research Institute in Trustworthy Inter-connected Cyber-physical Systems

Board: Maritime Unmanned Systems Advisory Board, NATO

Board: Imperial Space Labs Advisory Board

NED: Disruptive material innovation:

Judge: MAD33

Other projects and programmes:

ISST Innovation Ecosystem (ISST-IE):

Imperial lead for the UK MoD's Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) MoU at Imperial College, White City:

Development of advanced crowd analysis technology:

Securing the next generation of metro systems with the RTSC: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/transport-studies/railway-and-transport-strategy

Trials and testing of autonomous vehicles:

Infrastructure innovation consultancy with Reliance Industries: http://www.ril.com/OurBusinesses/Jio.aspx