Dr Bugra Alkan is a Senior Lecturer in AI and Robotics at London South Bank University, where he leads the Human-Centred Industrial Intelligence (HCI²) Lab. He holds a PhD degree in Engineering from WMG, University of Warwick, and has held research appointments at the University of Bristol and WMG. His work sits at the intersection of industrial AI, digital twins, and human–robot collaboration, focusing on deployable methods for high-variability, safety-critical manufacturing. He is PI/Co-I on various funded projects including HAWKSBI (Innovate UK, 10004690) and TWIN-IT-ROMANS (EU Horizon, 101160215), and has contributed as a researcher to TB-PHASE (EPSRC, EP/R004757/1) and AMPLiFII 2 (Innovate UK, 104175). He has authored 50+ peer-reviewed publications with 1,000+ citations (h-index 16, i10-index 24), with work recognised through multiple Best Paper Awards including at CIRP CATS (Gothenburg). He teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, leads modules in AI and industrial cyber-physical systems, supervises doctoral and MSc research, is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and serves as an Associate Editor for Industrial Robot.