Dr Bruce Stephen joined the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Strathclyde University in 1999 and currently holds the post of Senior Research Fellow within the Institute for Energy and the Environment at the University of Strathclyde. In the past 20 years, his research output in the areas of artificial intelligence and distributed computing applications have been supported with funding from both industrial and government sources. This research has spanned multiple disciplines, resulting in the design, implementation and deployment of software solutions to industrial problems that automate condition assessment, anomalous condition detection and simulate future behaviours of complex systems.  Most recently, this research has focused mainly on complex dependency modelling in energy systems and forecasting and understanding energy end use, which has been undertaken through a number of industrial and consortium based projects.