Alex Rutherford
Senior Data Scientist
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Rutherford is a Senior Data Scientist with 12 years of experience bridging applied research and policy-focused analytics, currently working at Ofcom after research roles at MIT Media Lab and UNICEF. Trained as a physicist with a PhD from UCL and an MPhys from Warwick, he combines rigorous scientific methods with extensive Python engineering to deliver reproducible, production-ready analyses. His background in classical Arabic study and international experience gives him a distinctive interdisciplinary perspective when tackling data problems across domains. Comfortable with both exploratory research and stakeholder-facing regulatory work, he regularly translates complex models into actionable insights for decision-makers.
12 years of coding experience
Standard Arabic Regular Course, Classical Arabic, Standard Arabic Regular Course, Classical Arabic at Damascus UniversityMPhys, Physics, 1st, MPhys, Physics, 1st at University of WarwickUniversity College London
English, Arabic, Spanish
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Github Skills (6)
pandas6
python6
iphone6
cooperation2
scalable1
react1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
alexrutherford/unthesaurus_scraping
Jul 2014 - Jun 2016
Contributions:26 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
alexrutherford/arabic_nlp
Jan 2014 - Mar 2018
Contributions:37 commits, 10 pushes, 1 comment in 4 years 2 months
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