Ben Jones
Principal Engineer at MathWorks
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBen Jones is a Principal Engineer at MathWorks with over a decade of experience bridging research and production software, specializing in machine learning, C++, neural networks, evolutionary computation, and parallel systems. He transitioned from academic research—earning a PhD and working on the evolutionary emergence of neural organisation in primitive organisms—to applied engineering, bringing a strong foundation in computational biology and time-series prediction to commercial products. At MathWorks he has advanced from developer to principal engineer, applying high-performance and 3D graphics programming skills to complex engineering toolchains. He has published peer-reviewed work in neural networks and biometrics, and his background in MPI and genetic algorithms informs robust, scalable solutions. Based in Cambridge, Ben pairs an academic curiosity with pragmatic software delivery and describes himself wryly on GitHub as a "pretender of most things," reflecting a wide-ranging technical appetite beyond a single specialty.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at University of Birmingham
Github Skills (28)
filesystem9
encryption8
interpreted-programming-language8
sublime7
plug7
sublime-text6
interpreter5
concurrent5
programming-language5
ios4
golang4
xcode4
swift4
macos3
compiler3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
benhj/NetReachabilityChecker
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:8 releases, 18 commits, 17 pushes in 13 days
benhj/OSXIPDisplayer
Jan 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:5 releases, 11 commits, 12 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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