Boguslaw Obara
Dean Of Business, Partnerships And Place at Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBoguslaw Obara is a strategic academic leader and AI imaging scientist who combines senior university leadership with hands-on research entrepreneurship across eight years of high-impact roles. As Dean of Business, Partnerships and Place at Newcastle University he forges cross-sector collaborations that translate research into economic, societal and policy impact while positioning the university as an anchor for inclusive regional growth. A Professor of Image Informatics and Turing Fellow, he leads one of the UK’s largest AI imaging groups, directing multimodal imaging and machine-learning programmes with clinical, industrial and investor partners. He founded Gliff.AI to commercialise deep-learning machine-vision solutions across medicine, manufacturing and security, demonstrating a rare ability to move innovations from lab to market. His background spans top-tier institutions including Oxford, Durham and UC Santa Barbara and a PhD in Computer Science, reflecting deep technical roots in quantitative microscopy and GPU-accelerated image analytics. Outside work he is a self-described football, chocolate and travel enthusiast, hinting at a pragmatic, personable approach to leadership and collaboration.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Senior Leadership Programme, Senior Leadership Programme at Newcastle UniversityMaster of Science (MSc) Physics, Master of Science (MSc) Physics at Jagiellonian UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at AGH University of Krakow
Polish, English, Russian, SpanishGithub contributions (5)
BoguslawObara/network2d
Feb 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
BoguslawObara/curvature_estimation2d
Mar 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:2 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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