Benedict Gaster
Associate Professor Physical Computing
Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBenedict Gaster is an Associate Professor in Physical Computing with over a decade of experience bridging academic research and industry in IoT, wireless and heterogeneous computing. He co-founded and technical-leads LoRaWAN Bristol, running a community LPWAN network, and consults on IoT and 5G at Cuberoo_, demonstrating practical deployment experience beyond academia. His earlier career includes senior engineering and architecture roles at Qualcomm, AMD and ClearSpeed where he shaped programming models, OpenCL and software tools for high-performance and heterogeneous systems. At the University of the West of England he combines teaching and research leadership with hands-on system design, translating cutting-edge research into real-world IoT infrastructure. Known for pragmatic technical management, he repeatedly moves projects from prototype to productization while mentoring engineering teams. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Nottingham and blends deep systems expertise with community-facing, deployable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Computer Science, Ph.D, Computer Science at University of Nottingham
Github Skills (96)
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julia9
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audio-effect9
audiounit9
csharp9
pitch-detection9
music8
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signal-processing8
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
bgaster/aa_examples
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
Audio Anywhere examples
Contributions:25 commits, 4 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 month
audiounitanywhereaudioaudio-effectrecord
bgaster/bgaster.github.io
Jul 2019 - Mar 2021
Reveal.js based presentations
Contributions:18 PRs, 54 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
javascriptreveal-js
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