Mark Briers
VP Research Alliances at Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford
Greater Cheltenham Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMark Briers is an internationally recognised AI and data science leader with over a decade of experience translating research into large-scale operational impact across government, industry and academia. He has delivered hundreds of millions in shareholder value as a FTSE-250 executive and led the data science behind the NHS COVID-19 app that achieved 20M downloads, class-1 medical certification and is credited with averting thousands of deaths. As VP Research Alliances he combines a Cambridge PhD and a professorship in cyber security with senior roles at The Alan Turing Institute, BT and Royal Mail, building research programmes, defence partnerships and enterprise analytics capabilities. He is skilled at bridging rigorous academic research and production systems—creating digital twins, self-serve analytics at scale and AI-driven forecasting—and has published 30+ scientific papers while teaching data science to over 1,500 students. Less obvious is his track record of securing diverse funding and strategic partnerships (including the Institute’s first Gates Foundation grant) to turn novel research into practical national-level solutions.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Senior Executive Programme, Senior Executive Programme at London Business SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Engineering at University of CambridgeGithub contributions (5)
markbriers/bd-sp-2017
Jan 2017 - Feb 2021
Contributions:23 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
markbriers/data-science-course
Feb 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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