Dr. Ben Ingram

Ben Ingram received a BEng in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (2003) and a Ph.D. in Neural Computing (2008) from Aston University, Birmingham, where he worked under the supervision of David Evans and Dan Cornford on techniques for applying geostatistics to big data. After his Ph.D., he continued to work with Dan Cornford and worked as a post-doc on a European FP7 project—Intamap. In 2009, he was appointed as an assistant professor in the Computer Science department of Universidad de Talca, Chile, where he worked for 8 years, including 3 years as the Head of Department. In 2017, he moved back to the UK where he took up a research position at Cranfield University in the Soil and Agrifood Institute working with Guy Kirk and Ron Corstanje. His current work includes developing generic methods for assessing the extent to which Asian rice supplies are contaminated with toxic metals, particularly arsenic and cadmium, and assessing the potential of technologies to mitigate risks based on agronomic management and rice genotype differences.