Craig Thomson
Lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCraig Thomson is a Lecturer in Cybersecurity and Networking at Edinburgh Napier University with a PhD in Computer Science (2021) focused on energy-efficient wireless sensor networks using mobile sink mobility patterns. He combines academic rigour—six first-author publications in top venues—with over 20 years of practical IT experience in Edinburgh’s finance sector, bridging research and applied systems. At the university he designs and delivers multiple modules and serves as School Lead for Associate Students, strengthening college partnerships and supporting direct entrants. Although his GitHub notes involvement in Natural Language Generation during his PhD, his core expertise spans networking, IoT, and cybersecurity, making him adept at translating theoretical insights into curriculum and industry-relevant solutions.
10 years of coding experience
HND Technical Support, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, A, HND Technical Support, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, A at Edinburgh CollegeWest Calder High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Edinburgh Napier University
Github Skills (42)
acl10
computational-linguistics10
phonetics10
natural-language-processing8
nlp6
web-application6
bag5
migrate5
representations5
java5
bag-of-words5
text-generation5
machine-learning4
doc2vec4
skip4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ehudreiter/accuracySharedTask
Dec 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:70 commits, 63 pushes in 9 months
nlgcat/sport_sett_basketball
Aug 2020 - Dec 2021
A resource for data-to-text generation
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 27 pushes in 1 year 4 months
nlpdata-to-textmachine-learningtext-generationnatural-language-processing
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