About

• 💻 Web3 and Backend Software Reseacher and Developer
• 🛰️ PhD research in Distributed Ledger Technologies for Satellite-based Emergency Mapping
• ✈️ Master's of Aero-Mechanical Engineering
• 📝 My Website - robertcowlishaw.com

What I'm working on

• 🔍 Trying to make Web3 more accessible
• 🌋 Satellite-based Emergency Mapping Optimisation for Natural Disaster Response
• 🌍 Consensus Mechanisms in Low Earth Orbit Communication Networks
• 🛰️ Decentralised Federated Learning for Earth Observation Data (Disasters and Agriculture)
• 🔭 Data Oracle Scaled-loading for Large Data Tasks

Some projects I work on

My Research Papers

Feel free to read and reference my papers

Automating and Decentralising Satellite-based Emergency Mapping published in the 2023 Fifth International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA) with the code found here.

@inproceedings{cowlishaw2023automating,
    title={Automating and decentralising satellite-based emergency mapping},
    author={Cowlishaw, Robert and Boumghar, Red and Arulselvan, Ashwin and Riccardi, Annalisa},
    booktitle={2023 Fifth International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA)},
    pages={76--81},
    year={2023},
    organization={IEEE}
}

Proof of Optimality for a Decentralised EO Data Processing Architecture published in the Proceedings of the 2023 conference on Big Data from Space (BiDS’23) with the code found here.

@inproceedings{cowlishaw2023proof,
  title={Proof of optimality for a decentralised EO data processing architecture},
  author={Cowlishaw, Robert and Riccardi, Annalisa and Arulselvan, Ashwin},
  booktitle={2023 conference on Big Data from Space (BiDS’23)},
  year={2023}
}

Multi-objective optimisation strategy for on-orbit fault-tolerant decision making published in the 2024 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) with the code found here.

@inproceedings{10612025,
  author={Cowlishaw, Robert and Arulselvan, Ashwin and Riccardi, Annalisa},
  booktitle={2024 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC)}, 
  title={Multi-Objective Optimisation strategy for On-Orbit Fault-Tolerant Decision Making}, 
  year={2024},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={1-7},
  keywords={Space vehicles;Fault tolerance;Satellites;Accuracy;Fault tolerant systems;Decision making;Consensus algorithm;Consensus;decentralised network;satellites;combinatorial optimisation;multi-objective optimisation;prac-tical byzantine fault tolerance},
  doi={10.1109/CEC60901.2024.10612025}}

Optimizing Participant Selection for Fault-Tolerant Decision Making in Orbit Using Mixed Integer Linear Programming published in the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing with the code found here.

@article{10678934,
  author={Cowlishaw, Robert and Riccardi, Annalisa and Arulselvan, Ashwin},
  journal={IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing}, 
  title={Optimizing Participant Selection for Fault-Tolerant Decision Making in Orbit Using Mixed Integer Linear Programming}, 
  year={2024},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={1-9},
  keywords={Satellites;Consensus protocol;Space vehicles;Network topology;Fault tolerant systems;Fault tolerance;Topology;consensus algorithm;MILP;pBFT;on-orbit decision making;satellite communication;fault-tolerant decision making},
  doi={10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3459630}}

Decentralized and netural Consensus Mechanisms in Space Conjunctions Assessment and Mitigation: Space DAO STMM published in the 10th Space Traffic Management Conference 2024 with the code found here.

@inproceedings{inproceedings,
  author = {Boumghar, Redouane and Aksenov, Ivan and Ai, Parametry and Ceglarek, Jan-Peter and Riccardi, Annalisa and Cowlishaw, Robert and Elß, Claire and Many-Girardot, David},
  year = {2024},
  month = {02},
  pages = {},
  title = {Decentralized And Neutral Consensus Mechanisms in Space Conjunctions Assessment and Mitigation: Space DAO STM}
}