David Harle

David Harle serves as a Senior Teaching Fellow within the Electronic and Electrical Engineering department at the University of Strathclyde's Faculty of Engineering. His academic career spans several decades with expertise in telecommunications and image processing technologies.

His educational background includes a Doctor of Philosophy in Novel Techniques for Voice & Data Integration (1989) and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (1984), both from the University of Strathclyde.

Dr. Harle's research primarily focuses on telecommunications network performance evaluation, specializing in B-ISDN, ATM and SDH technologies, network interconnection, gateway performance, and traffic characterization. More recently, his work has expanded into hyperspectral imaging applications for agricultural quality inspection, particularly in rice seed classification and cattle tracking systems. His publications demonstrate a strong interdisciplinary approach combining telecommunications expertise with computer vision applications.

His recent publications show a clear trend toward applying advanced image processing techniques to agricultural problems, with multiple papers on rice seed inspection using hyperspectral imaging between 2015-2020. These works demonstrate sophisticated approaches to classification and quality control using both spatial and spectral features.

Dr. Harle has participated in numerous research projects as a Co-investigator, including the Automatic Rice Seed Inspection Using Hyper-Spectral Imaging (Newton Fund), Applicability of Localised Heating for metal forging, KTP-Cisco, Secure High availability Avionics Wireless Networks, and Light as a Service initiatives. He also participated in the Faculty Robotics and Automation Users Group Discussion in October 2017.

His laboratory and team collaborations appear to be centered around the Centre for Signal & Image Processing at Strathclyde, working closely with colleagues including Christos Tachtatzis, Paul Murray, Ivan Andonovic, and Stephen Marshall on various imaging and telecommunications projects.