Currently studying for a PhD in the Plant Sciences department in Cambridge in cooperation with the AgriFoRwArdS CDT and Defra. Before joining the CDT I was an electronics engineer working for Arm for over a decade. I led some big teams building Neural network Processing Units and I’ve come back to academia to explore how ML technology can be applied in agriculture and conservation. I’ve also had various placements and consultancy roles including keeping BBC Alba on air in Glasgow, working for Hitachi in Japan, designing control electronics for a telecoms start up and developing a drug delivery device for arthritis patients. My current academic work focuses on optimising control of invasive plant diseases using machine learning based approaches from the world of robotics.
