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The role of the Industry Advisory Board (IAB) is to facilitate the exchange of ideas between the board members, the academic staff and the students in the School of Computing Sciences at the University of East Anglia.
Current IAB Membership - August 2025
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Professor Nader Azarmi
Read moreProf Azarmi is the SVP of Zu-Tech Consulting. He has been involved in AI and Computing research and innovation activities in Industry and academia for over 40 years.
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Dr. Belinda Clarke OBE
Read moreBelinda currently leads Agri-TechE, the UK’s longest-established and largest commercial membership network connecting farmers and growers with researchers, technologists, entrepreneurs and investors.
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Dr. Vittoria Danino
Read moreVittoria brings experience of cross organisational working and an understanding of how universities and businesses can work together through teaching and research.
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Dr. Gabriel Harris
Read moreWith a Ph.D. in Medical Imaging Sciences and an M.Sc. in Medical Engineering & Physics from King's College London, Dr. Harris combines a robust academic background with over a decade of industrial experience as a practicing Data Scientist.
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Professor Kieran Hyder
Read moreKieran is the Sustainable Aquatic Food Lead at Cefas, which is part of the UK government. He has over 25 years’ experience in the application of modelling and statistics to solve real-world problems.
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Paul Sanford
Read morePaul Sanford has served in Norfolk Constabulary throughout his policing career. Paul joined in 1999, starting as a response office in Sprowston, and then held a variety of uniform and detective roles in all ranks, from Constable to Superintendent.
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Rob Senior
Read moreRob is Head of Talent at Frontier Developments in Cambridge, a video game developer and publisher, and has worked in HR and Recruitment roles for over 20 years across public and private sectors.
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Professor Andy Stanford-Clark
Read moreAndy Stanford-Clark is an innovation leader in IBM Research, accelerating innovative and transformative technology projects with Clients. He is an IBM Distinguished Engineer, a Master Inventor with more than 45 patents, and leads IBM’s Quantum Computing ambassador team in the UK.
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Dr. Barry-John Theobald
Read moreBarry is a machine learning researcher and manager in Machine Learning Research at Apple, based in Cupertino, California. He researches into compute- and data-efficient preference-based alignment of large language models.
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Eric Zie
Read moreEric Zie is a leading authority in digital sustainability and the founder of GoCodeGreen, a ClimateTech company recognised globally for pioneering methods to measure and reduce the carbon impact of ICT and software.