Born in Australia and aquired dual USA/Australian citizenship after over two decades in Los Angeles and Bay Area developing software for startups and large enterprise organisations as a freelance contractor. Moved back to Australia to care for mum and jumpstart a machine learning private consultancy here in Sydeny, Australia.
EDU
PhD, Neuroscience.
Macqaurie University, Australia.
Master of Research, Waveform Analysis.
Macqaurie University, Australia.
Master of Science, Software Engineering.
Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
Bachelor of Science.
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA.
Sydney Boy’s High School, Australia.
Papers of note
Newport RA, Liu S, Di Ieva A. Integrating eye gaze into machine learning using fractal curves.
In: NeuRIPS 2022 Workshop on Gaze Meets ML. ; 2022.
https://openreview.net/forum?id=-tFBD0sLQJL
Newport RA, Russo C, Liu S, Suman AA, Di Ieva A. SoftMatch: Comparing Scanpaths Using Combinatorial Spatio-Temporal Sequences with Fractal Curves.
Sensors (Basel). 2022 Sep 30;22(19):7438. doi: 10.3390/s22197438.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36236535/
Newport RA, Russo C, Al Suman A, Di Ieva A. Assessment of eye-tracking scanpath outliers using fractal geometry.
Heliyon. 2021 Jul;7(7):e07616.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34368482/
Abdulla Al Suman, Russo C, Carrigan AJ, Nalepka P, Benoit Liquet-Weiland, Robert Ahadizad Newport, et al. Spatial and time domain analysis of eye-tracking data during screening of brain magnetic resonance images.
2021 Dec 2;16(12):e0260717–7.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260717
Newport RA Comparative Feature Extraction Techniques in Speech and Radar Emitter Recognition
https://research-management.mq.edu.au/ws/portalfiles/portal/117747612/Author_version_Open_Access_.pdf
Newport RA (2019): Radar emitter recognition using hierarchical feature extraction within magnitude and frequency domains.
Macquarie University. Thesis.
https://doi.org/10.25949/19443293.v1
Patents of note
Embedded edit decision list.
ZD Hodges, RA Newport.
US Patent 9,146,942
Real-time perspective correction.
ZD Hodges, RA Newport.
US Patent 9,294,679
Difference image compression.
ZD Hodges, RA Newport.
US Patent App. 14/617,244
Implementation order of image edits.
ZD Hodges, RA Newport.
US Patent 9,472,010
Image perspective processing.
ZD Hodges, RA Newport, R Prashanth.
US Patent 10,147,155
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