Edwin Simpson
Senior Lecturer at University of Bristol
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEdwin Simpson is a lecturer and researcher in NLP and machine learning with 12 years of experience bridging academic research and applied data science across the UK and Germany. He holds a DPhil in Machine Learning from Oxford and has worked on Bayesian methods for crowdsourcing, Gaussian processes, and scalable variational inference, with applications from citizen science to disaster response. Currently splitting time between the University of Bristol and TU Darmstadt, he focuses on interactive NLP and Bayesian approaches to low-quality and small-data problems. His background includes industry-facing research and consulting—running confidential data science projects for commercial clients—and prototyping fast-turnaround tools for real-world crises. Edwin combines deep probabilistic modelling expertise with practical software development experience dating back to enterprise engineering roles at HP and earlier product work. Colleagues would note his knack for turning principled Bayesian ideas into deployable systems that improve noisy, human-in-the-loop decision making.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Machine Learning, PhD Machine Learning at University of OxfordErasmus Year Abroad Computer Science, Erasmus Year Abroad Computer Science at Technische Universität DresdenMEng Computer Science, MEng Computer Science at University of Bristol
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Github Skills (13)
bayesian10
text-analytics9
classifier7
python6
phonetics5
machine-learning4
acl4
natural-language-processing4
science4
flutter3
computational-linguistics3
dart2
website-development1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
UKPLab/tacl2018-preference-convincing
May 2016 - Sep 2020
Experimental code for the paper 'Finding Convincing Arguments Using Scalable Bayesian Preference Learning'
Contributions:460 commits, 63 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 5 months
bayesian
CitizenScienceInAstronomyWorkshop/pyIBCC
Mar 2014 - Jan 2017
IBCC implementation for use with cit sci projects. Updated from code written by Kieran Finn.
Contributions:20 commits, 50 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
pythoncitfinnsciupdated
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