Collin Bleak
Deputy Scientific Director at Tennyson-Wile, LLC
St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolCollin Bleak is a Reader in Pure Mathematics at the University of St Andrews and Deputy Scientific Director of the UK Knowledge Exchange Hub for Mathematical Sciences, combining deep academic research in infinite groups and dynamical systems with national-level policy and impact work. He has led an EPSRC-funded programme (over £500k), supervised 12 PhD completions, and helped shape the Bond Review that contributed to increased UK funding for mathematics. Alongside academia he brings substantial industry and startup experience as a former software architect and FX research consultant, a founding partner in three ventures, and CEO of a risk-analysis software startup. His profile uniquely blends rigorous theoretical work with practical product and market-facing roles, making him as comfortable presenting at international conferences as advising industry partners. Based in St Andrews, he leverages this dual perspective to drive innovation, strategic initiatives, and measurable research impact across academia and industry.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Ph. D., Mathematics, Ph. D., Mathematics at Binghamton UniversityBachelor of Arts (BA), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Mathematics and Computer Science at Princeton University
weak spanish
Github Skills (20)
git10
github10
patch9
subversion8
game-engine4
golang4
2d-game4
compile3
nwjs-application3
css3
desktop3
cpp2
go2
python1
nwjs1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
loeksnokes/prefcode
May 2020 - Feb 2023
Implements complete prefix codes in Go, over given utf8 alphabet. Includes functionality like expanding a prefcode at a given word, or trimming the prefcode down at some prefix of a word in the code. It also finds exposed carets and other optional goodies.
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 8 months
golangtrimmingalphabetutf8expanding
loeksnokes/treepair
Jan 2021 - Feb 2023
Implements a Go package treepair using our Go package prefcode. treepair supports standard R. Thompson's group calculations for the groups F, T, and V.
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
golanggo-packagegroupsthompsoncalculations
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