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Professor Jon Platts

Dean of Cardiff School of Technologies
Cardiff School of Technologies

Overview

Professor Jon Platts is the Dean of Cardiff School of Technologies at Cardiff Metropolitan University and Professor of Autonomous Systems. Jon took up this role following careers in the UK Royal Air Force and industry research and development.

Jon was the Head of Autonomy for QinetiQ for 13 years, shaping the direction of research programmes and co-ordinating multi-organisation teams (from QinetiQ, Dstl, BAE Systems, Thales UK, the Military and Academia) as well as multi-disciplinary teams within QinetiQ. Jon holds a BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Bradford, an MSc in Aerosystems Engineering and a PhD in Self organising fuzzy logic, both from Loughborough University.

He is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and a member of both the Institution of Measurement and Control and the International Council on Systems Engineering.

Research Publications

Challenges of Cyber Risk Management in Multinational Operations and Missions

Hutson, P. M., Damaj, I. W., Hewage, C. & Platts, J., 18 Sept 2024, AI Applications in Cyber Security and Communication Networks - Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Cyber Security, Privacy in Communication Networks ICCS 2023. Hewage, C., Nawaf, L. & Kesswani, N. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 419-429 11 p. (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; vol. 1032 LNNS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

Embedding Ethics in Coding: A Software Engineering Approach to Data Security and Privacy in Event Management Apps

Wylde, V., Adhitya Nantish, S. B., Prakash, E., Hewage, C. & Platts, J., 18 Sept 2024, AI Applications in Cyber Security and Communication Networks - Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Cyber Security, Privacy in Communication Networks ICCS 2023. Hewage, C., Nawaf, L. & Kesswani, N. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 229-245 17 p. (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; vol. 1032 LNNS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

Resonance Effects in Periodic and Aperiodic Lattice Structures

Uddin, M. J., Platts, J., Rajan, G., Fung, W. K., Islam, S. Z. & Islam, M. U., 5 Jun 2024, In: IEEE Microwave Magazine. 25, 7, p. 63-78 16 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Smart Hospitality: Understanding the ‘Green’ Challenges of Hotels and How IoT-Based Sustainable Development Could be the Answer

Kalsi, N., Carroll, F., Minor, K. & Platts, J., 21 Nov 2023, Evolution in Computational Intelligence - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Frontiers of Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications FICTA 2023. Bhateja, V., Yang, X.-S., Ferreira, M. C., Sengar, S. S. & Travieso-Gonzalez, C. M. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 73-83 11 p. (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies; vol. 370).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

Post-Covid-19 Metaverse Cybersecurity and Data Privacy: Present and Future Challenges

Wylde, V., Prakash, E., Hewage, C. & Platts, J., 8 May 2023, Data Protection in a Post-Pandemic Society: Laws, Regulations, Best Practices and Recent Solutions. Springer International Publishing, p. 1-48 48 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

Ethical Challenges in the Use of Digital Technologies: AI and Big Data

Wylde, V., Prakash, E., Hewage, C. & Platts, J., 3 Jan 2023, Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer, p. 33-58 26 p. (Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

The Use of AI in Managing Big Data Analysis Demands: Status and Future updates Directions

Wylde, V., Prakash, E., Hewage, C. & Platts, J., 5 May 2022, Artificial Intelligence and National Security. Springer International Publishing, p. 47-67 21 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

Covid-19 era: Trust, privacy and security

Wylde, V., Prakash, E., Hewage, C. & Platts, J., 24 Feb 2022, Privacy, Security And Forensics in The Internet of Things (IoT). Springer International Publishing, p. 31-49 19 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

Cybersecurity, Data Privacy and Blockchain: A Review

Wylde, V. J., Rawindaran, N., Lawrence, J. J., Balasubramanian, R., Prakash, E., Jayal, A., Khan, I. A., Hewage, C. & Platts, J., 12 Jan 2022, In: SN Computer Science.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Preface

Chew, E., Abdul Majeed, A. P. P., Liu, P., Platts, J., Myung, H., Kim, J. & Kim, J. H., 4 Aug 2021, RiTA 2020: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications. Springer, p. v-vi (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingForeword/postscript

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