The founding team
Co-founder
Emma Walker.
- Background
- Astrophysics · University of St Andrews
- Leads on
- Distributed compute and large-scale data
Emma Walker is an astrophysicist and one of three co-founders of SovereignStrUKture, having studied at the University of St Andrews.
Astrophysics depends on distributed computing and very large datasets. Emma leads work on the compute layer: pooling accredited nodes across the UK, scheduling inference and training, and keeping large-scale data under UK jurisdiction.
Responsible for
- Pooling UK compute nodes
- Scheduling inference and training
- Large-scale data handling
Research
What "sovereign" should mean for AI computePublished · 25 Sept 2026
Training across ordinary networks: decentralised compute in practicePlanned · Jan 2027
Accrediting and auditing contributing computePlanned · Mar 2027
Procuring sovereign AI in the public sectorPlanned · Apr 2027