Craig Russell
Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Valence Labs
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCraig Russell is a Senior Machine Learning Scientist with a decade of expertise applying computer vision and deep learning to life sciences, currently working across Recursion and Valence Labs from London. He holds a PhD from Cambridge and has led production-scale AI platforms at EMBL-EBI, deploying Kubernetes/Helm-based workflows and CI/CD for petabyte-scale bioimage archives. His research blends practical software engineering and novel algorithms—ranging from probabilistic image reconstruction and VAE dimensionality reduction to fast spatially-varying deconvolution and Poisson-regularised denoising—often applied to multi-TB microscopy and oncology image analyses. Craig has a strong track record mentoring PhD students, teaching deep-learning courses for bioimage analysis, and translating prototypes into scalable cloud and HPC pipelines. Equally comfortable in low-level computational microscopy and high-level platform engineering, he pairs experimental rigor with production-first deployments. An understated strength is his ability to turn complex biological imaging problems into reproducible, automated workflows that bridge research and industrial drug-discovery use cases.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSci) Physics, Master of Science (MSci) Physics at Nottingham Trent UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Engineering at University of Cambridge
English
Github Skills (200)
python10
toolbox10
image-processing10
image-viewer10
deep-learning10
gpu10
aws-s310
scientific-computing10
microscopy10
variational-autoencoder10
autoencoder10
galaxy10
organize10
science10
blocked10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
ctr26/ZeroCostDL4Mic
Feb 2021 - Nov 2023
ZeroCostDL4Mic: A Google Colab based no-cost toolbox to explore Deep-Learning in Microscopy
Contributions:2 releases, 74 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 8 months
pytorchno-costexploredeep-learninggoogle-colab
uhlmanngroup/bioimage_embed
Jul 2021 - Mar 2023
Contributions:4 releases, 6 reviews, 205 commits in 1 year 8 months
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