Alexander Clark
Machine Learning Engineer
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Clark is a Machine Learning Engineer and EdD candidate at UCL Institute of Education who transitioned from a 36-year career in primary education to focus on theoretical and mathematical linguistics, grammatical inference, and machine learning. Based in London, he combines deep school leadership experience—having served as CEO, Regional Director, and multiple headteacher roles—with nine years of hands-on ML research and occasional NLP work. His background in educational leadership and advisory ICT roles gives him a rare mix of practical classroom-informed perspective and formal research rigor. He brings expertise in modeling language structure and inference, informed by a lifelong commitment to pedagogy and systems-level change. An unexpected strength is his ability to translate complex theoretical ideas into actionable educational tools and policy insights.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
King Edward VI School, LichfieldBachelor of Education (BEd), Music and Education, Bachelor of Education (BEd), Music and Education at University of LeedsDoctor of Education - EdD, Doctor of Education - EdD at UCL Institute of Education
Github Skills (9)
grammars7
synthetic6
testing5
parser-generator5
grammar5
nlp4
inference3
machine-learning3
natural-language-processing3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
alexc17/testcfg
Aug 2016 - Jan 2021
Testing learnability properties of context-free grammars.
Contributions:1 review, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
context-freetestinggrammarpropertiesparser-generator
alexc17/syntheticpcfg
Aug 2018 - Oct 2019
Code for generating synthetic PCFGs for testing grammatical inference algorithms.
Contributions:79 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
nlpinference-algorithmsgrammaticaltestinginference
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