Alexandra is Associate Professor in Digital Manufacturing and is leading the Manufacturing Analytics Research Group within DIAL. She is a fellow of Darwin College. Having trained as a manufacturing systems engineer and then embarking on a research career in Artificial Intelligence, she is fascinated by the merger of the two. Her research interests include: Development of automated and scalable optimisation and distributed decision making technologies, particularly with nature-inspired algorithms and Multi-agent Systems Predictive Data Analytics, especially for predicting and handling uncertainty in supply chains and other emergent manufacturing systems Identification of emergent patterns in industrial systems, particularly in relation to robustness, resilience and quality outcomes