Dr Martin O'Reilly

Martin is Director of Research Engineering at the Turing. His focus is on leveraging research engineering practices to increase the impact of research by making it reproducible, reliable, robust and reusable, both as "best" practices for research engineering professionals and as "good enough" practices for the wider research community. Martin is also a trustee of the Society of Research Software Engineering and, in both his Turing and Society roles, he works on establishing sustainable organisational structures and career pathways for research engineers and those in other related research infrastructure roles.

Martin also has an interest in enabling researchers to work safely, securely and productively with sensitive data, leading work on the Institute's Data Safe Haven - a cloud-based, scalable, reproducibly deployable trusted research environment, deployed in production at the Turing and other organisations to support their research. He has also led some of the institute's work on privacy-preserving synthetic data generation to understand if these can effectively replace more sensitive datasets for some aspects of the data science analysis pipeline.

Martin has a PhD in computational neuroscience from UCL, and an MSc in artificial intelligence from Edinburgh. During his postgraduate work his focus was on understanding the brain by simulating it, and developing techniques to understand the connectivity of neurons within the brain from high-resolution microscopy.

Martin's experience developing software, managing software projects and managing technical teams spans both the research and business sectors, having spent several years working in the commercial sector between stints in academia.