Presenters

Faculty and Associates

This course is delivered by a core team of world leading experts from Astra Terra Limited and Imperial College London together with a group of top-notch external speakers. The core team is listed below:

Professor Mireille Elhajj, PhD, FRIN
Programme Director

CEO, Astra-Terra / Visiting Professor at Imperial College London / Fellow and Member of Technical Committee of the Royal Institute of Navigation / Award Winner CEO Monthly 2025

Professor Washington Yotto Ochieng, CBE, EBS, CEng, FREng, FCGI
Instructor

Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Centre for Active Resilience and Security, Imperial College London / Chartered Engineer / Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering / Fellow of the City and Guilds Institute / President of the Royal Institute of Navigation / Trustee of the Science Museum Group.

James Kelly
Instructor

Research Consultant & Innovation Champion. World-class inventor with 300 granted international patents / Consultant, Astra Terra Limited / Recipient of 3 Tata Innovista Award / Technology Champion and Autonomy Researcher, Jaguar Land Rover

Dr Naseem Akhtar, Beng (Hons), MSc, DIC, MBA, PhD, CEng, MRAeSc
Instructor

Senior Research Engineer, Jaguar Land Rover Consultant / Consultant, Astra Terra Limited / Member of the Jaguar Land Rover Electrical Research Team / Recipient of the JLR Technical Prize / Awarded JLR Patent Award Off-Road Navigation System Innovations.

Dr Sen Wang, PhD, Associate Professor in Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Instructor

Founding Director of MSc in Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovation / 2025 AI most influential Scholar Award Honourable Mention (Robotics) / Licensed Intellectual Property Researcher (AI and Tech Leaders) / Technica l Advisor to leading Robotics and AI Start-Ups / Former post-doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford.

Dr Raffaele M Della Croce Di Dojola, PhD
Instructor

Researcher at Grantham Institute, Imperial College London / Previous Co-Director of the Singapore Green Finance Centre / Previous Senior Economist at Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Farah Ghali, MSc
Programme Administrator, Astra Terra Limited