I am an independent researcher working on the governance of research and innovation, corporate governance, and the philosophy of quantum information. What connects these is a question about evidence: what an organisation, or a physical system, can establish about the capabilities and conditions it depends on.
In innovation and research governance, I study how funders, boards and regulators recognise new capability, decide what to back, and stay accountable for those decisions when their evaluation criteria were built for an earlier generation of technology. 'The Other Control Dilemma' treats delay in recognising new capability as a governanc…
I am an independent researcher working on the governance of research and innovation, corporate governance, and the philosophy of quantum information. What connects these is a question about evidence: what an organisation, or a physical system, can establish about the capabilities and conditions it depends on.
In innovation and research governance, I study how funders, boards and regulators recognise new capability, decide what to back, and stay accountable for those decisions when their evaluation criteria were built for an earlier generation of technology. 'The Other Control Dilemma' treats delay in recognising new capability as a governance problem in its own right, with cases from semiconductors, AI compute and quantum computing. In corporate governance, 'Boards Cannot Delegate Accountability' and 'Delegated Discretion' examine directors' duties where decisions run through AI-mediated systems, or through institutional chains in which no one can evaluate the standards being applied.
In the philosophy of quantum information, 'Blind by Design' examines quantum error correction (QEC), where blindness to some information is a condition of protecting it rather than a defect of inquiry. The paper asks when such blindness is required and what it costs, using open-source simulations. This work builds on Representational Sealing Theory (ReST), set out in 'The Inside of Generatedness', and on 'What Conceptual Change Cannot Recover', which sets bounds on what inquiry through an interface can establish, including for quantum channels. Current work extends these questions to the foundations of quantum theory and gravity.
My research draws on more than two decades in electronics and semiconductor engineering, including product strategy at National Semiconductor, analog integrated-circuit design and precision instrumentation, and on fourteen years building businesses in Hong Kong. I trained in law (LLB, Staffordshire; LLM with Distinction, Reading). Alongside my research, I am open to senior leadership roles in deep-tech strategy and governance, particularly in semiconductors and quantum technologies.
