Oversubscribed with Brendan Hill Inside HEO: Australia’s Secret Space Camera Company | Hiranya Jayakody, Steve Baxter, Jessy Wu
With Jessy Wu, Steve Baxter
About Hiranya Jayakody
Dr Hiranya Jayakody is co-founder and chief technology officer of HEO, an Australian space company that uses cameras on satellites to inspect other satellites and objects in orbit for commercial, government and defence customers. He co-founded the company with chief executive Dr Will Crowe in 2016 and leads its technical team.
He trained as an electronics engineer at the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka and worked in telecommunications before completing a PhD in mechatronics engineering at UNSW Sydney, where he developed control methods for drones and space robots. He then worked as a researcher at UNSW on image processing and machine learning for agriculture.
On Oversubscribed, he told Brendan Hill how he started out wanting to mine asteroids before building HEO.
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Oversubscribed with Brendan Hill The path so far.
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Co-founder and CTO · HEO
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Researcher in computer vision and machine learning for agriculture · UNSW Sydney
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HEO on Day One
HEO is an Australian space company that photographs satellites and other objects in orbit, a field it calls non-Earth imaging.
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