Technology and security engineering company Synoptix partnered with King’s College London’s Department of Mathematics to explore technical safeguards for neural network IP.
Collaboration with academia is an “utterly vital part of our business”
For Callum and Synoptix, academic collaboration has been business-critical. "The Technology Directorate at Synoptix was created directly as a result of the academic collaborations we have built with King’s and other universities. We have identified fundamental research that generated IP, which we have been developing ever since."
From the perspective of the mathematician, for Ivan, working with industry helps set the research agenda going forwards, “it's a very fruitful partnership because you're informing them about your vision of the future, and they're informing you about the problems and challenges coming up, and for your research, you can make a more informed decision about what's important now, what's going to be important in a year’s time, and what's going to be important maybe in two or three years’ time.
He adds: “This also means your research can have a direct benefit to society, and the involvement of an important stakeholder from day one like Synoptix or government for example, supports in the planning and the execution of your research programme, resulting in impactful tools and services.”
For Synoptix, there are ambitions to continue expanding this work, with the technology department having doubled in size over the last year, and set to double or triple again, depending on progress over the next year. Callum said, “it's been an utterly vital part of our business, and we're aiming to expand what we d o with academia beyond just the technology development side, to all parts of the business.”
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