Ben joined GDS in May 2006 from the University of Reading. His background stems from the field of mobile robotics where he has much expertise in Control Engineering, Hardware Design, Firmware and Software development and the application of advanced machine intelligence techniques (e.g. genetic algorithms and artificial neural networks).

He is primarily concerned with research and development and is heavily involved with the integration of modern, state-of-the-art, technologies and algorithms into the next generation of GDS Products. This involves Overall Systems Design, Analogue/Digital Electronics design, PCB layout and Embedded Firmware, Software and Algorithm development.

Ben still maintains strong links with University of Reading and is a visiting research fellow of the School of Systems Engineering where he obtained both a first class honours degree in Cybernetics and Control Engineering and was also awarded his PhD for his novel research in machine intelligence applied to the field of mobile robotics. His research interests are wide-spanning and include machine intelligence, mobile robotics, advanced genetic algorithms and artificial neural networks.