What I do, using only the ten hundred most used words: I build things which read lots of information and find
the interesting things in that information. Right now I'm working on using machines to "smell" blood and other
watery things to find signs that people are sick. Before that I worked on finding bad people who wanted to hurt
other people, so that we could stop them before anyone got hurt.[1]Created using xkcd's Simple Writer tool, from whom I also
stole acquired the code for these snazzy footnotes.
I'm currently CTO at PinPoint Data Science, where we are developing a test for triaging patients with suspected cancer. Prior to that I completed a PhD at the University of Warwick's Statistics department, working on Bayesian machine learning techniques for early cancer detection, and before that I worked for BAE Systems developing data analysis software for the UK government.[2]"I'm a data analysis software developer" isn't normally a great conversational gambit, so I tell people I'm not allowed to talk about it to sex it up a bit. Not that "I'm not allowed to talk about it" is much better fodder for conversation, but at least I sound like Q from James Bond (which is absolutely what that job was like, in case you were wondering).
If you're interested in machine learning and programming check out my list of talks, some of which even have slide decks. If you're interested in looking at some R or Python code, check out my GitHub repos.
While at Warwick I co-wrote and taught the Maths for Data Analysis course and was senior teaching assistant for the Computer Programming course in the Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership (MIBTP) Masters programme. I also ran tutorials in ST202 Stochastic Processes and ST104 Statistical Laboratory 1 in the Statistics department.