I lead research and development efforts with 15 years experience designing emerging technologies. 

I prototype and deploy measurement systems in challenging environments from the boats of Olympic sailing teams, the backs of sea turtles to remote rainforests. My work spans mechanical, electronic, and AI systems with a focus on deriving new understanding from field measurement. 

I am available for project-based consulting, technology strategy, and private tutoring in science, engineering, and applied AI.

I believe strongly that the social and physical welbeing of human beings must be at the centre of our pursuits to develop technologies or restore nature. 

Expertise 
project leadership; environmental monitoring; citizen science. social enterprise; physics modelling; scientific coding; data science; computer vision; electronics; testing and evaluation; model building; human motion analysis; pose capture; physical computing; computer science; remote monitoring ; writing; presenting; teaching; technical illustration; video production; acoustics. 

About me:

I studied my bachelors degrees in Marine Technology at Newcastle University. This gave me a strong understanding in most engineering disciplines. I went on to work with the British Olympic Sailing Team for 6 years and gained a PhD from the University of Southampton. I’ve written an article about it here. I developed the first pose-capture system designed for analysing Olympic sailors performance and built motion platforms so they could practise in the lab. I honed my skills in developing and evaluating complex control and sensor systems which needed to work at high speed while being submerged in saltwater.

All the work developing autonomous sensor systems to function in salt-water turned out to be very interesting to conservation groups. They needed to record data in the rainforest which had an unexpected degree of overlap with my research with the British Sailing Team.

I joined Bristol University’s Bristol Interaction Group where I worked to develop acoustic printing technologies based on levitation and pattern forming. I designed and ran tests around the safety of ultrasound at very high-pressure levels.

I found that being able to make reliable and water-tight sensors was useful to large-scale conservation projects. This led me to design turtle trackers and later evaluate AI’s ability to recognise and count animal calls on a 100,000 hectare site in Malaysian Borneo.

I enjoy working on multidisciplinary projects, especially when they combine environmental sustainability, culture and art. I’m in my element presenting to audiences of corporate management, engineers, scientists and the general public. 

My research interests are in performance measurement techniques for sport and environment, conservation technology and designing for non-expert user groups. 

I have taught mathematics, control systems, energy harvesting, structures and naval architecture at leading British universities.

If you have an idea which needs developing but not sure where to start, please get in touch to collaborate.

Dr Joshua C Taylor FRSA BEng