Robert Harle is a Senior Lecturer at the Computer Laboratory within the University of Cambridge, UK. His research interests are related to all forms of sensing, but particularly where mobile and wearable systems are involved. He has published extensively in the fields of indoor positioning, context-awareness and ubiquitous computing.

He is a Fellow of Downing College in Cambridge, where he originally studied as an undergraduate and is now Dean. He is also a Bye-Fellow at Fitzwilliam College. He received the Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching in 2016.

A keen track sprinter as an undergraduate, he is now the Senior Treasurer of the Cambridge University Athletic Club and sits on the University’s Sports Committee.