Adam Hill
Staff Data Scientist
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolAdam Hill is a Staff Data Scientist and AI engineer with 11 years of experience applying machine learning, graph analytics, and LLM/RAG techniques to solve high-impact problems across finance, smart cities, and scientific research. He combines deep technical hands-on skills—Python, Neo4j, Docker, Prefect—and production AI engineering with strategic leadership, having built and mentored data teams and led communities of practice. At ComplyAdvantage he advanced financial-crime detection through graph-based audits, error-clustering for pipeline efficiency, and multilingual entity extraction from unstructured text. A former astrophysicist with a PhD, he brings rigorous research instincts to product-focused ML, and he co-founded PyData Southampton while volunteering on transparency and social-impact projects like Global Witness and DataKind. He is passionate about ethical, transparent AI and excels at aligning cross-functional stakeholders to deliver responsible, scalable data products.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Physics, PhD Physics at University of SouthamptonUniversity College London
English, French
Github Skills (33)
javascript10
css10
nodejs10
react10
math9
open-source9
codebase8
certification7
pascal7
perl6
coffeescript6
r6
routines6
cpp5
powershell5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Cadarn/astroLib
Jul 2014 - Aug 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 1 month
routines
PyDataSouthampton/News
Mar 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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