Edward Oughton
Assistant Professor - College Of Science at British Antarctic Survey
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolEdward Oughton is an Assistant Professor at George Mason University with 11 years of experience modeling and simulating critical infrastructure and its vulnerabilities. He combines academic rigor from a PhD and MPhil at the University of Cambridge with hands-on research roles at institutions including the British Antarctic Survey, MIT, Oxford, Cambridge, and Carnegie Mellon. His work spans space weather, networks, and environmental risk, and he develops open-source data analytics tools to support decision-making under uncertainty. Known for bridging disciplinary boundaries, he moves between policy-relevant risk modeling and technical system simulation, often translating complex scientific results into practical guidance for infrastructure resilience. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, he maintains active international collaborations and a track record of visiting appointments that amplify the real-world impact of his research.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Philosophy (MPhil), Master of Philosophy (MPhil) at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (81)
image-processing10
energy10
satellite10
noise10
heightmap10
electric-vehicles10
satellite-imagery10
broadband10
terrain10
simulations9
orbit9
simulator9
power-systems9
python9
modelica9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
edwardoughton/qubic
Apr 2021 - Mar 2022
Quantified Universal Broadband Investment by Country
Contributions:100 commits, 41 PRs, 24 pushes in 11 months
financebroadbandinvestmentquantified
edwardoughton/satellite-image-analysis
Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
An introduction to script-based satellite image processing using Python
Contributions:1 release, 265 commits, 223 PRs in 10 months
satellite-imagerypythonsatelliteearth-observationsatellite-imagery-analysis
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