Chris Burgess
Principal Research Scientist at Moonvalley
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Burgess is a Principal Research Scientist based in Los Angeles with 11 years of experience building intelligent systems that "know what they're doing." He blends deep academic training—a PhD and postdoc in neuroscience from UCL focused on visual perception and decision-making—with industry research and leadership roles at DeepMind, Wayve, Runway, and now Moonvalley. Chris has led and shipped research-driven teams and prototypes across autonomy and generative AI, translating neural-level insights into robust machine learning systems. Known for bridging neuroscience and applied ML, he brings a rare mix of experimental rigor, product-aware research, and hands-on engineering that helps turn complex models into reliable real-world behavior.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University College London
Stackoverflow
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6kreached
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Github Skills (30)
keras8
reinforcement-learning7
api7
hyperparameter-tuning7
collaboration6
react6
deep-learning6
matlab-gui6
machine-learning6
interpolation6
matrix6
pytorch6
matlab6
cli5
ai5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dendritic/signals
Feb 2015 - Aug 2019
Simple stimulus presentation for your experiments
Contributions:3 PRs, 63 pushes, 10 comments in 4 years 7 months
reactstimulus-presentationpresentationstimulus
nsteinme/signals
Nov 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:64 commits in 1 year 4 months
reactstimulus-presentationpresentationstimulus
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