Hugo Mills

Hugo Mills trained as a mathematician up to a PhD in combinatorial optimisation and scheduling theory, before jumping ship to Computer Science. He has nearly 40 years experience in software development, and 20 years in research data management.

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Before joining Agrimetrics, Hugo spent 4 years splitting his time between working as an ontologist for Syngenta, and being the CTO of Nightglass, a small startup developing a staff rostering solution for the NHS. At Nightglass, he brought their development processes and software from a research-grade proof of concept up to a usable product.

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Hugo has also spent time in academia, investigating research data management techniques (electronic lab notebooks for chemists and field archaeologists), and large-scale computing – grid computing, MapReduce, and job scheduling on supercomputers – and lecturing on databases and large-scale computing. Code based on one of his algorithms is part of the job management software on some Cray supercomputers.

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Outside work, he is a keen cook, and is a classical musician, singing tenor with the Basingstoke Choral Society.

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