David is a Senior Research Software Engineer (RSE) in the Digital Innovation Team.

He is responsible for delivery of sustainable software projects in collaboration with science teams around BAS including projects such as: LOGIST (including PolarRoute-server and VOLT), automating the Amundsen Sea Low Index, QUASAR and is the maintainer of DeepSensor.

Prior to joining BAS in January 2024, he was a Senior RSE in the University of Sheffield RSE team since 2019, taking an interest in improving research reproducibility, sustainability and accountability though collaboration and training.

He is also a 2022 fellow of the Institute for Research Software, with an interest in developing training and guidance for reproducible research in MATLAB.

Previously to becoming an RSE, he undertook a PhD and two postdoctoral research positions at the University of Bristol and Lund University in visual sensory biology using computational and laboratory methods from optical physics and engineering.

Selected publications (for full list see google scholar)

• Wilby, D., Karmakharm, T., Roberts, I., Song, X., & Bontcheva, K. (2023). GATE teamware 2: An open-source tool for collaborative document classification annotation. Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, 145–151.
  https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-demo.17
• Wilby, D. et al. (2019). Using micro-CT techniques to explore the role of sex and hair in the functional morphology of bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) ocelli. Vision Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.
  2019.02.008
• Feller, K. D., Wilby, D., et al. (2019). Long-Wavelength Reflecting Filters Found in the Larval Retinas of One Mantis Shrimp Family (Nannosquillidae). Current Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.07.070
• Wilby, D., & Roberts, N. W. (2017). Optical influence of oil droplets on cone photoreceptor sensitivity. Journal of Experimental Biology. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.152918
• Wilby, D. et al. (2015). Optics of cone photoreceptors in the chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus). Journal of The Royal Society Interface. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2015.0591

Publications from NERC Open Research Archive

1. VOLT – AI fleet planning for more science and less fuel

   What is VOLT? VOLT – Vehicle Optimisation for Logistics and Transportation – is an AI itinerary planning tool for fleets of ships and autonomous vehicles. It decides which vessel does […]

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2. QUASAR – Improving how we measure Antarctic sea ice

   QUASAR uses AI to improve Antarctic sea ice measurements from satellites, making climate data more reliable for scientists tracking changes in polar regions.

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3. PolarRoute – Smarter AI routes through changing polar conditions

   PolarRoute – Smarter AI routes through changing polar conditions

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1. AI environmental image analysis

   AI environmental image analysis is a digital facility at British Antarctic Survey where computer vision meets polar science.

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2. Logist – AI decision support tools

   Logist develops decision support tools that use environmental data to help experts make the best routing and planning decisions.

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