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This list showcases the top Cambridge based Associate operating in the Education 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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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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Ramesh Raskar
Associate Professor of MIT Media Lab
Ramesh Raskar is a tenured member of the MIT faculty and director of the Camera Culture group at MIT Media Lab. He has more than 20 years of research experience in imaging and holds more than 90 US patents across the fields of computational photography, inverse problems in imaging, and human-computer interaction. He has long track record of working with large and small companies, and has transferred many of his patents into commercial products. His recent inventions include transient imaging to look around corners, a novel CAT-scan machine, imperceptible motion capture markers, long-distance barcodes, and touch + hover 3D interaction displays. Raskar received the Technology Review TR100 Award, the Global Indus Technovator Award, a Sloan Research Fellowship, the DARPA Young Faculty award, and four Mitsubishi Electric Invention Awards. – See more at: http://eyenetra.com/team.html#sthash.CCAMSzI3.dpuf
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Neri Oxman
Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences of MIT Media Lab
Designer Neri Oxman is the Sony Corporation Career Development and assistant professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab, where she founded and directs the Mediated Matter research group. Her group explores how digital design and fabrication technologies mediate between matter and environment to radically transform the design and construction of objects, buildings, and systems. Oxman coined the term “material ecology” to describe the study and design of products and processes integrating environmentally aware, computational, form-generation processes and digital fabrication. Her goal is to enhance the relationship between the built and the natural environments by employing design principles inspired by nature, and implementing them in the invention of novel digital design technologies. Areas of application include product and architectural design, as well as digital fabrication and construction.
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Iyad Rahwan
Associate Professor of MIT Media Lab
Iyad Rahwan is the AT&T Career Development Professor and an Associate Professor of Media Arts & Sciences at the MIT Media Lab, where he leads the Scalable Cooperation group. A native of Aleppo, Syria, Rahwan holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and is an affiliate faculty at the MIT Institute of Data, Systems and Society (IDSS). Rahwan’s work lies at the intersection of the computer and social sciences, with a focus on collective intelligence, large-scale cooperation, and the societal aspects of Artificial Intelligence. He led the winning team in the US State Department’s Tag Challenge, using social media to locate individuals in remote cities within 12 hours using only their mug shots. His work appeared in major academic journals, including Science and PNAS, and was featured in major media outlets, including the New York Times, The Economist, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.
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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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Fiona Murray
Associate Dean of Innovation of MIT – Sloan School of Management
Professor Fiona Murray is the Associate Dean of Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Alvin J. Siteman (1948) Professor of Entrepreneurship and the Faculty Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. She is the Co-Director of MIT’s Initiative for Innovation. She is also an associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is an international expert on the transformation of investments in scientific and technical innovation into innovation-based entrepreneurship that drives jobs, wealth creation, and regional prosperity. She has a special interest in entrepreneurship, the commercialization of science and the economics of entrepreneurship and innovation. She has done extensive work with entrepreneurs, governments, large corporations and philanthropists designing and evaluating the policies and programs that shape vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems: prizes competitions, accelerators, patent licensing rules and proof of concept funding programs. Murray has taught and published extensively on fostering cultures that bridge scientific innovation and entrepreneurship, building effective entrepreneurial strategies for science-based businesses (in biotech and biomedical companies and recently, clean energy), and evaluating the commercial potential of novel scientific ideas. Closely tied to real world problems, Fiona works with public policy makers and entrepreneurs designing and evaluating the policies and programs that shape vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems: prizes competitions, accelerators, patent licensing rules and proof of concept funding programs.
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Nelson Repenning
Associate Professor of Management Science and Organization Studies of MIT – Sloan School of Management
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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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Marie Georghiou
Senior Consultancy Associate of University of Cambridge Enterprise
Marie joined Cambridge Enterprise in October 2012 as Post-Deal Administrator, and joined the Consultancy team in March 2014. She has held a variety of office roles and volunteering positions since 2005 in France, Cyprus and England, including administration, finance and teaching. She completed her Graduate Diploma in Law at the University of Westminster in 2011 and also holds a degree in French Law from Paris I University and a degree in Translation from Montpellier III University.
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Amanda Zeffman
Consultancy Associate of University of Cambridge Enterprise
Amanda is Head of Consultancy Services, a fast-growing service dedicated to generating both societal and economic impact from academic research by facilitating consultancy between University academics from across all disciplines within the University and external organisations. The Consultancy Services team has supported almost 400 consultancy projects this past year of which many arose from Arts, Humanities or Social Science disciplines. In 2017-18, Amanda’s team saw a 63% increase in the number of new consultants with deals signed for 165 academics and 234 clients in that period. Amanda periodically delivers training to technology transfer professionals for PraxisAuril, the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) and the European Association for Technology Transfer Professionals (ASTP), and is on the Board of Directors for ASTP as VP for Professional Development. Amanda previously worked for the University of Nottingham’s School of Pharmacy, where she ran a newly created interdisciplinary Doctoral Training Centre. As Project Manager, she co-ordinated the PhD programme and brought together academics and industry to generate collaborative research projects in targeted therapeutics as well as running a government-funded project to develop researchers’ transferable skills. She has also worked for the Food Standards Agency in scientific policy and for Isis Research (now known as Synovate Healthcare) where she was responsible for planning, implementing and analysing large international studies on HIV therapy for the pharmaceutical industry. Amanda has a PhD in HIV research from the MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the University of Cambridge. Amanda joined Cambridge Enterprise as Consultancy Associate in January 2008 and became Head of Consultancy in February 2015.
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Beth Singler
Research Associate of Faraday Institute for Science and Religion
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