Allan Evans
Principal Researcher at Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAllan Evans is a principal researcher and physicist with two decades of multidisciplinary experience bridging optics, machine learning, image processing and quantitative finance. He has led research teams from academic labs to corporate products—holding roles at Oxford Nanopore, Sharp and Winton—turning novel ideas into deployed technology and more than 20 patents. His work ranges from inventing 3D displays and self-assembled polarisers to applying ML in DNA sequencing and transaction-cost modelling, reflecting a rare combination of deep mathematical physics and practical engineering. Comfortable managing projects, external collaborations and stakeholder-facing research, he also publishes and advises on financial topics. Based in Oxford, he brings both hands-on algorithm development and strategic research leadership informed by a Cambridge PhD.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Physics, MS, Physics at University of MinnesotaPhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (3)
machine-learning9
algorithms4
pytorch3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
nanoporetech/taiyaki
Mar 2019 - Oct 2020
Training models for basecalling Oxford Nanopore reads
Contributions:79 commits, 8 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 7 months
nanoporemachine-learningtrainingoxford-nanoporeoxford
nanoporetech/scrappie
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Scrappie is a technology demonstrator for the Oxford Nanopore Research Algorithms group
Contributions:10 commits in 20 days
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