Colin Gillespie
Co-Founder at Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolColin Gillespie is a data-focused entrepreneur and academic with 13 years of professional experience, co-founding Jumping Rivers to deliver practical data science and machine learning solutions. He is the author of Efficient R Programming and a familiar R trainer—teaching advanced R, parallel computing and package development to large undergraduate and postgraduate cohorts at Newcastle University. His research blends statistical bioinformatics, Bayesian methods and high-performance computing, and he has a track record of turning computational research into usable services dating back to e‑Science SOA work on Beowulf clusters. Colin combines hands-on consulting with pedagogy and writing, making complex statistical computing topics accessible to practitioners. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, he leverages a PhD in Statistics and deep R expertise to bridge academic rigor with real‑world data engineering.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Phd, Statistics, Phd, Statistics at University of Strathclyde
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
csgillespie/In-silico-Systems-Biology
Sep 2012 - Aug 2014
Contributions:103 commits in 1 year 11 months
jumpingrivers/inteRgrate
Oct 2019 - May 2022
Continuous integration
Contributions:10 releases, 4 reviews, 132 commits in 2 years 7 months
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