Luke Harries

Hi! I'm an entrepreneur and software engineer
working on augmenting human capabilities with AI.

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News

2020

1st January - I'm based in San Francisco until the Summer

2019

8th December - Our work combining graph neural networks and deep reinforcement learning will be presented at the Deep Reinforcement Learning Workshop at NeurIPS
16th September - I'm building a new company focused on augmenting human capabilities with AI. More details soon!
13th September - Today was my last day at Microsoft Research. Here are a few of my highlights
4th September - I will be speaking at the London PyTorch meetup on Mental Models for Deep Learning
22nd - 29th July - I will be in San Francisco for Interact
9th - 16th June - I will be at ICML 2019 in Long Beach presenting MazeExplorer at the "Understanding and Improving Generalization in Deep Learning" workshop
23rd March - I will be leading a workshop on Deep Learning for Detecting Disease at the Imperial Medical Student's Coding conference
20th January - We won HackCambridge using in-browser machine learning to improve physiotherapy adherence!

2018

1st - 10th December - I will be at NeurIPS 2018 in Montreal presenting SomaticNet at the Machine Learning for Health workshop
17th September - I will be joining Microsoft Research Cambridge as the first cohort of AI Residents outside of Europe!

About Me

I'm on a mission to solve real problems at scale.

To date, I've approached this in several ways: building companies; working as a contract software engineer developing websites, apps, and machine learning pipelines; and consulting for early-stage tech startups on product development, technical hiring, and outsourcing.

I'm currently building something new. If you'd like to find out more, reach out through Twitter or LinkedIn.

Previously, I was an AI Resident at Microsoft Research working on deep reinforcement learning. Before, I studied the MSc in Computer Science at UCL, completing my thesis with Cambridge Cancer Genomics, a Y Combinator backed BioTech Startup. I studied pre-med at Cambridge where I was the founding President of the Cambridge StartUp Society hosting events with startup founders and venture capitalists. My work on cognitive neuroscience was published. Alongside, I co-founded Proteam, which we grew to be the largest platform for intra-university sport in the UK with 9,000+ users.

Projects

Here are two of projects that I am particularly proud to have been involved with.

Deep Learning for Detecting Cancer Mutations 🔬

I completed my master's thesis with Cambridge Cancer Genomics (YC S17), leading the development of SomaticNet - a novel method for detecting cancer mutations.

The resulting paper was accepted at the Machine Learning for Health workshop at NeurIPS 2018 and the tool is publically available via CCG's website.

Proteam 🏉

During my final year at Cambridge, I co-founded and was CTO of Proteam which we built to solve the lack of organisation of University Sport.

The iOS and Android apps allowed students to follow teams, get notified of upcoming games, create team-sheets and much more.

We grew the platform to 9,000+ users across 6 Universities. You can find an archive of the website here.

Hackathons

From idea to prototype in 24-hours!

MyPhysio

🎉 Winner of HackCambridge 2019

We developed a tool to gamify physiotherapy workouts by using machine learning to classify poses. The aim is to increase adherence of at home workouts. All training and prediction is done in-browser using Tensorflow.js, reducing any reliance on servers and meaning your images never leave the computer - maintaining privacy.

VisualCognition

🎉 Winner of HackCambridge's Microsoft Prize 2018

For the millions of people with Visual Impairments, images online are inaccessible. We created a chrome extension which uses machine learning to automatically generate the missing image captions. The captions describe what's in the photo, who they are, and what any text says.

Visit VisualCognition.co for more information.

SeeingSight

🎉 Winner of Allia's Serious Impact Hackathon 2017

We created the proof of concept for faster, cheaper and more accurate screening of Macular Degeneration. It is built for Google Cardboard which turns any phone into a VR headset.

Our solution has three parts:
1. Mapping the functional visual field
2. Increasing awareness of what it's like living with MD
3. Warping a real-time camera feed to move images out of your blind spot

Visit Github for more information.