Andrew P. Hill
Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel
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Andrew P. Hill is an experienced chief executive with over 13 years of accredited research in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and robotics in commercial, state, and academic environments.
Andrew is the recipient of an Innovate UK grant as lead researcher focused on Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) operations within public airspace for both private and civil operations. The public policy research is published in Volume 73 of the 'Technology in Society' academic journal in an article called 'Public Drone Perception.' The research grant is provided under the stewardship of the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
Andrew is the Director of Programming and Community for Harvard Alumni Association’s start-up accelerator, designed to give alumni-founded companies the tools needed to scale up, featuring world-class faculty and mentors providing in-depth workshops customised to address the challenges and requirements of founders.
Andrew was a Senior Teaching Fellow in Computer Science at Harvard Business School (HBS) and Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) under Professor David J. Malan, before continuing specialist education at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in Big Data theory and solutions architectures under Turing Award Winner Professor Michael Stonebraker. Andrew is a Master’s Degree graduate of Harvard University, where he authored his dissertation on the topic of applied Machine Learning (ML) to discover critical, time-sensitive events in live streaming big data feeds.
After applying his computer science background across innovations in the tech, government, finance, and legal sectors, Andrew studied Intellectual Property law under Harvard Law School (HLS) Professor William W. Fisher. Andrew’s law school dissertation was authored and accepted as a critical investigation of space law, and international cooperation in the interest of both human rights and commercialisation in the outer space environment.
Andrew continues to serve the international community as a human rights advocate, managing pro bono immigration and asylum cases in the UK's Ministry of Justice (MoJ) with His Majesty's Courts & Tribunals Service under the supervision of Judge Paul Shaerf.
Andrew received the 2022 Global Talent award by the UK Home Office and Tech Nation for his work in academic research and technology entrepreneurship.