Benjamin Taylor - Head Of Statistics

Benjamin Taylor

Head Of Statistics

Cork, Ireland

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Benjamin Taylor is Head of Statistics and a lecturer at University College Cork, bringing 11 years of applied and academic experience in stochastic simulation, spatiotemporal statistics and particle filtering. He combines deep theoretical work—25 journal articles and supervision of five PhD students—with hands-on engineering, authoring eight R/CUDA packages and over 30 years of programming across C, CUDA and R. His background spans academia and healthcare analytics, including leadership as Lead Data Scientist at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals, where he translated complex inferential problems into practical, computable solutions. Benjamin excels at designing advanced Monte Carlo algorithms and deploying them end-to-end, from low-level high-performance code to web presentation and publication, and is known for prioritizing intuitive models that expose inferential challenges rather than obscure them.

11 years of coding experience

3 years of employment as a software developer

MSci, Pure Mathematics, MSci, Pure Mathematics at University of Birmingham

MSc, Medical Statistics, Distinction, MSc, Medical Statistics, Distinction at University of Leicester

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Statistics at Lancaster University

French

Github Skills (5)

r-package2

survival-analysis1

spatial1

rust1

survival1

Programming languages (2)

HTMLPython

Github contributions (5)

cran/spatsurv

Mar 2020 - Nov 2022

Contributions:6 commits in 2 years 9 months

bentaylor1/spatsurv

Jun 2015 - Oct 2016

Contributions:18 pushes in 1 year 4 months

r-packagespatialrstatssurvivalsurvival-analysis

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