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Richard West is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick, with a focus on exoplanets and Space Domain Awareness. As a founding member of the WASP and NGTS projects, he has played a key role in designing and implementing ground-based wide-field optical surveys aimed at discovering new exoplanets using the transit method. His contributions included developing the computing hardware and software infrastructure necessary for processing and storing the significant amounts of data generated nightly. West is also involved with the PLATO mission at the PLATO Data Centre, where his work intersects with high-speed multi-band photometry for monitoring objects in low-Earth orbit. By leveraging the capabilities of GPUs, he achieves real-time analysis of high-speed imaging data captured by advanced CMOS InGaAs imaging sensors. Additionally, he has experience in X-ray astronomy, particularly with the ROSAT and XMM-Newton missions, and High-Performance Computing (HPC).
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