Evolving Machine Intelligence Pty Ltd (EMI) is a pure
R&D
entity, developing novel artificial intelligence technologies that enable machines to understand and control
complex systems (including other machines) non-invasively. Using new forms of evolutionary machine learning (ML), The MachineGenes Group is able to evolve and grow fully-explainable digital twins of complex highly-nonlinear machines as if they were living organisms.
These digital twins are evolved using tiny fragments of noise-polluted partial sensor data, in a simulated environment. They are then interpreted using novel forms of generative adversarial AI, able to run on isolated Edge devices.
The provisional patents describing and protecting our forms of evolutionary ML and generative adversarial AI were filed in June 2014, before Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) were unveiled by Goodfellow et al.
In 2015 EMI formed
the
commercial
company Turbine MachineGenes, to enable machine-intelligent
reconstruction of high-value high-complexity engines and other relevant
industrial systems worldwide.
In 2024 The MachineGenes Group is finally emerging from stealth mode, to announce its capabilities to a global audience.
Team MachineGenes was a semifinalist in IBM Watson's AI XPRIZE competition, showcasing medical applications of the novel evolutionary machine learning / generative adversarial AI platform used by Evolving Machine Intelligence, Turbine MachineGenes and Diabetes Neuromathix .
CAPABILITIES
At EMI and TMG, our software evolves candidate mathematical models and conducts machine-intelligent testing of their assumptions and ambiguities, exploring the worst-case effects of "known unknowns" by playing against a machine-intelligent adversary. Then, by communicating the consequent processes, models, assumptions and advice clearly and interactively to human operators - by being transparent, in contrast to the obscurity of neural networks - our software is able to generate high-confidence machine-intelligent strategies to control engineering systems and implement these strategies for real-world applications.
APPLICATIONS
Current applications of our algorithms include analysis of aviation engines and (elsewhere) the development of an artificial pancreas. Other areas of interest include maritime engines, oil and gas wells, power generation, complex industrial systems and other high-performance applications.
Our team is comprised of an experienced mathematician, research engineers and consultants from academia and industry. Investors in Turbine MachineGenes include UniQuest, the main commercialisation company of The University of Queensland.
Dr Nigel Greenwood (Founder)
Spitfire Memorial Defence Fellow (2005, 2007); former Honorary Senior Fellow in the School of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Queensland (UQ).
An applied mathematician with particular expertise in novel forms of artificial intelligence, he received his BSc with a first in pure mathematics in 1989 and a PhD in applied mathematics in 1994, both from UQ.
Former senior analyst, Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Commonwealth of Australia. Inventor of multiple patents and patent applications in novel forms of artificial intelligence and its applications in medicine and engineering. Leader, Team MachineGenes, IBM Watson AI XPRIZE (2016-2020).
Professor Ingo Jahn (Consulting Engineer)
Professor, Hypersonics, Rockets and High Speed Flight Systems, University of Southern Queensland (USQ).
From 2018-2022 he was Deputy Director of the Centre for Hypersonics, and Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering and Turbo-machinery within the School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, UQ.
MPhil (Oxon.); DPhil, Turbomachinery Laboratory, Oxford; former research technology leader at Rolls-Royce plc for Oil Systems; Whittle Laboratory, 2016. Ingo is an expert in scramjet engines, hypersonic vehicle control, control and optimization, and advanced seals for gas turbines and oil system design.
Sir Michael Craig-Cooper CBE TD DL
Sir Michael is a Special Adviser (formerly Director and Chairman of the Audit and Risk Committee) to the National Bank of Kuwait (International) Plc. Solicitor (articled to the then President of the Law Society of England and Wales), subsequently with Allen and Overy, International Nickel Company of Canada Ltd, Carre Orban and Partners, and Chairman, Disciplinary Appeal Committee of Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
Member, Court of the Drapers Company (Master 1997/98), and active with many other pro bono bodies including The Royal Hospital Chelsea (Chelsea Pensioners). Trustee of various bodies including The Thames Diamond Jubilee Foundation, The Mansion House Scholarship Scheme and The Lord Mayor’s Fund for Charities. Member, Council of the Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor.
He is co-author, with Lord Sheppard and Bain & Co Partners, of books on management, including ‘Management Audit – the management of change’ and with Lord Lane of Horsell and Professor N.Graham Maw, ‘On Corporate Governance’.
Greg Salotti
Greg is a long-serving senior advisor, manager and director in the Defence sector, with experience over 30 years across high-tech start-ups, small to medium enterprise, Defence primes and Government. He has first-hand experience and knowledge of the key challenges and opportunities for Australian businesses competing in a globally competitive marketplace.
Until January 2021 Greg was the Defence Innovation Director within the Centre for Defence Industry Capability (CDIC). In that role Greg assisted Australian companies from across the country to commercialise their innovations and technologies in the Defence sector with a strong focus on the linkage to Defence innovation funding such as the Defence Innovation Hub and the Next Generation Technologies Fund, as well as Plan Jericho and Project Greyfin.
This funding assisted the incremental development of Australian technology to provide specific capability benefits to the Australian Defence Force.
Greg has held senior roles with Australian Defence Industries Ltd (ADI), Thales, Systemic, the Defence Industry Innovation Centre (DIIC) and the CDIC.
Anders Engel Christensen
A Danish citizen and resident of Monaco, Anders holds a Master of Science in finance and economics, Aarhus University, Denmark (1986) and completed the executive program in strategy and organisation at the Stanford Business School, Stanford University (2000).
Since 2019, Anders has served as special advisor to the family office IPS (Monaco)/Canadian Overseas Packaging Group (Canada) and has been an active investor in a few selected start-up companies within the IT sector (e-commerce, artificial intelligence etc.) and/or driven by clean and sustainable economies, such as World Climate Foundation Ltd.(Denmark/UK), Sandcroft Avenue Ltd. trading as Hussle (UK), E-HubNordic ApS (Denmark) and the MachineGenes Group of companies (Australia, of which EMI and TMG are members).
From 2010 to 2019 Anders served as CEO of the family office IPS/Canadian Overseas Packaging Group, with focus on the manufacturing of paper-based packaging solutions in East Africa, the Caribbean and the United Kingdom, and in international financial investments.
From 1986 to 2010 he worked in investment banking, primarily in Northern Europe (Nordea and ABN-Amro Alfred Berg, and then as partner and co-founder of Atrium Partners) providing financial advisory services in relation to capital market transactions (e.g. listing on a public stock exchange) and international mergers & acquisitions.
John Bender
John Bender serves as Chairman of Matthew Bender & Co. Holdings Ltd., an investment office associated with one of the founding families of an Anglo-Dutch publishing concern. Amongst his responsibilities is the coordination of activities in the Far East. He is also on the advisory board of a hedge fund specialising in systematically traded strategies. Between 1988 and 2001, Mr. Bender covered Asian equity markets at Morgan Stanley, Barings and HSBC with the benefit of having spent much of his life in Hong Kong.
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