Stuart's research interests are based on topics within the fields of Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering. These include:
- HCI and Gesture Recognition
- Surveillance and Security
- Autonomous Vehicles and Operations
- Vision Based Metrology

Stuart has participated in a number of academic and industry sponsored research projects, including:
- Damage detection and damage tolerance in rotating mechanical systems (Westlands)
- ROADSense (Jaguar Cars Ltd, EU)
- MoD Grand Challenge (Saturn consortium)
- Road Pavement Condition Monitoring (TRL Ltd)
- Automated Testing of Vehicle Instrument Clusters (JLR)
- ONEHeart (Airbus)