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This list showcases the top Cambridge based Associate operating in the Universities space. If you think a Associate is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Aleksander Madry
Associate Professor of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Aleksander Madry is an Associate Professor of Computer Science in the MIT EECS Department and a Principal Investigator in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He received his PhD from MIT in 2011 and, prior to joining the MIT faculty, he spent some time at Microsoft Research New England and on the faculty of EPFL. Aleksander’s research interests span algorithms, continuous optimization, science of deep learning and understanding machine learning from a robustness perspective. His work has been recognized with a number of awards, including an NSF CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, an ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention, and 2018 Presburger Award.
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About Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT is a research university that conducts research and offers educational courses in science, technology, and engineering.
Tamara Broderick
Associate Professor of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tamara Broderick is the Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Tamara’s recent research is focused on developing and analyzing models for scalable Bayesian machine learning, especially Bayesian nonparametrics. She is a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center, and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS). Tamara has been awarded a Google faculty research award, the ISBA Lifetime Members Junior Researcher Award, the Savage Award (for an outstanding doctoral dissertation in Bayesian theory and methods), the Evelyn Fix Memorial Medal and Citation (for the PhD student on the Berkeley campus showing the greatest promise in statistical research), the Berkeley fellowship, an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, a Marshall Scholarship, and the Phi Beta Kappa Prize (for the graduating Princeton senior with the highest academic average). She holds a PhD in statistics from the University of California, Berkeley, completed under Michael I. Jordan, an AB in mathematics from Princeton University, a master of advanced study for completion of Part III of the Mathematical Tripos from the University of Cambridge, an MPhil by research in physics from the University of Cambridge, and an MS in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Adam Chlipala
Associate Professor of Computer Science of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Julie A Shah
Associate Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Julie Shah is an Associate Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT and leads the Interactive Robotics Group of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Shah received her SB (2004) and SM (2006) from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, and her PhD (2010) in Autonomous Systems from MIT. Before joining the faculty, she worked at Boeing Research and Technology on robotics applications for aerospace manufacturing. She has developed innovative methods for enabling fluid human-robot teamwork in time-critical, safety-critical domains, ranging from manufacturing to surgery to space exploration. Her group draws on expertise in artificial intelligence, human factors, and systems engineering to develop interactive robots that emulate the qualities of effective human team members to improve the efficiency of human-robot teamwork. In 2014, Shah was recognized with an NSF CAREER award for her work on “Human-aware Autonomy for Team-oriented Environments,” and by the MIT Technology Review TR35 list as one of the world’s top innovators under the age of 35. Her work on industrial human-robot collaboration was also recognized by the Technology Review as one of the 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2013, and she has received international recognition in the form of best paper awards and nominations from the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, the International Symposium on Robotics, and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
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Jeff Freilich
Associate Director, CSAIL Alliances of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Jeff Freilich
Associate Director, CSAIL Alliances of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Courtney Cogburn
Associate Professor of Columbia University
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Martin Kleppmann
Research Associate of University of Cambridge
Dr Martin Kleppmann is a researcher in distributed systems at the University of Cambridge, and author of the acclaimed book “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” (O’Reilly Media, 2017). In his previous startup career he co-founded Rapportive in 2010 (acquired by LinkedIn in 2012) and Go Test It in 2007 (acquired by Red Gate Software in 2009).
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Tongyun Li
Research Associate of University of Cambridge
Tongyun Li is the Co-Founder at ZifiSense. He attended University of Cambridge in 2007.
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Jasmin Fisher
Associate Professor in Systems Biology of University of Cambridge
Fisher’s research in executable biology focuses on cutting-edge technologies for modelling the molecular mechanisms of cancer and the development of novel drug therapies.
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Richard Kay
Senior Research Associate of University of Cambridge
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Anna Calamia
Teaching Associate of University of Cambridge
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Anna Calamia
Teaching Associate of University of Cambridge
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Karina Vold
Research Associate of University of Cambridge
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Stratos Idreos
Associate Professor Of Computer Science of Harvard University
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Douwe Korff
Associate, Oxford Martin School of University of Oxford
Douwe Korff is Emeritus Professor of International Law at London Metropolitan University.
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Anton Dek
Research Associate of Cambridge Judge Business School
Anton is a data science specialist with a PhD and experience both in academia and the private sector. Anton’s research interests include the cryptoassets market and its behavioural aspects. Anton is the co-author of the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index, the real-time estimate of the total electricity load and consumption of the Bitcoin network. Previously, Anton taught Data Science at Karazin Kharkiv National University and the University of Barcelona. He also worked at, and then managed, an analytics company where he mastered the software development cycle and came across Bitcoin while working on its price modelling. Prior to his work with cryptoassets, Anton specialised in renewable energy and conducted nuclear safety tests at the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology as a Research Fellow. Anton holds an MSc in Applied Physics and an MSc in Applied Economics from the Karazin Kharkiv National University.
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