Laura Harris Email & Phone Number

Salisbury, Gb

• Identifying and evaluating opportunities to achieve impact from research.• Advising academics on the strategic development of intellectual property.• Conducting market research.• Developing and executing business plans, including securing funding and investment.• Setting up collaboration agreements and licenses with partners, including negotiation of deal terms.• Supervising the creation of spin-outs.

• Managing a portfolio of innovations in a fast paced environment• Conducting market analyses and preparing commercial strategies for technology development and transfer• Networking, generating leads and identifying dual use applications• Supporting business development and contributing improvements to processes

Developing, implementing and advising on deep learning techniques for a range of defence and security applications. Researching robustness of machine learning under Alan Turing Institute visiting position. Exploring advances in deep learning model architecture, optimisation, code libraries and cloud computing. Technical partner for Defence and Security Accelerator. Led the machine learning component of the 2017 Data Academy.

Plymouth, United Kingdom

As part of the NERC Airborne Research Facility I processed high quality airborne lidar, hyperspectral and thermal data for research scientists. Supporting this, I developed processing scripts, participated in sensor calibration and conducted experimentation to characterise the sensors. This included publishing in the scientific literature and delivering training. I also provided project management support to the Earth And Sea Observation System.

Focusing on lidar and hyperspectral imaging I became the maritime technical lead for electro-optical sensing, providing input into international collaborations. From this I became a project technical lead for investigating multi-sensor UAS capability in the littoral environment, collaborating with industry to deliver trials and develop specialist processing.

Working within the Maritime Non-Acoustics team I acquired a wide range of sensors and signatures expertise, contributing to customer deliverables for a variety of projects. Through courses and on-the-job training I developed my Matlab programming skills, basic signal processing and image analysis with packages such as ENVI.

Msci In Natural Sciences, Joint Honours Chemistry And Physics, 2:1

Activities and Societies: Secretary of Equestrian Society Volunteer for Riding for the Disabled Association Archery Fencing

Master Of Science (Msc), Defence Sensors And Data Fusion

Nanodegree, Deep Reinforcement Learning

Computer Vision Nanodegree

Natural Language Processing Nanodegree

Nanodegree, Data Science