Tony Day

Head of Technology and Development

Tony has over 13 years of industrial and academic experience in researching and developing software, he has delivered impactful solutions across domains including humanitarian, law enforcement, crisis resilience, marketing, and business and service management. He passionately leads the ongoing development of SCAAN (Security Communications and Analysis Network) and the Community Response Mobile Toolkit in partnership with the UN’s IOM (International Organization for Migration) and in collaboration with several UN agencies including the SCAAN’s 2018-19 WHO (World Health Organization) deployment to support field staff responding to Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

This is alongside a growing portfolio of major FP7, Horizon 2020, and Horizon Europe projects most notably: as acting Scientific and Technical Lead on the TENSOR project (2016-2020; detection of online terrorist generated content); providing technical solutions in ATHENA (2013-2016; citizen-engaged crisis management); and ePOOLICE (2013-2015; detection of online organised crime indicators). A critical part of Tony’s work is supporting the growth the skills, capabilities, and capacity of CENTRIC’s diverse multi-disciplinary technical delivery teams.

Publications

Bayerl, P., Akhgar, B., Raven, A., Gibson, H., & Day, T. (2022). Future Challenges and Requirements for Open Source Intelligence in Law Enforcement Investigations: Results From a Horizon Scanning Exercise. European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin, 22, 21-38.
Cumberland, E., & Day, T. (2021). A Prescriptive Approach for Structured Information Extraction From Web Forums And Social Media. In: 2021 International Symposium on Computer Science and Intelligent Controls (ISCSIC). (pp. 95-101). IEEE.
Day, T., Dennis, K., & Gibson, H. (2021). TENSOR: A Solution to Dark Web Investigations. In: Dark Web Investigation. (pp. 119-135). Springer, Cham.
Hancock, P., Saunders, J., Davey, S., Day, T., & Akhgar, B. (2019). ATLAS: Preparing Field Personnel for Crisis Situations. In: Serious Games for Enhancing Law Enforcement Agencies. (pp. 189-193). Springer, Cham.
Mitzias, P., Kompatsiaris, I., Kontopoulos, E., Staite, J., Day, T., Kalpakis, G. Tsikrika, T., Gibson, H., Vrochidis, S. & Akhgar, B. (2019). Deploying Semantic Web Technologies for Information Fusion of Terrorism-related Content and Threat Detection on the Web. In: WI '19 Companion IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence - Companion Volume. ACM Press, 193-199.