Gareth Jones
Lead Data Scientist
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGareth Jones is a Lead Data Scientist based in London with a decade of experience bridging experimental neuroscience and applied machine learning. He brings a researcher's rigor to production problems, having transitioned from DPhil-level sensory neuroscience and electrophysiology to building ML systems across fairness, reinforcement learning, and unstructured data. Gareth has held senior data science roles at Experian and Monolith and now leads data efforts at esure, focusing on pipeline automation, recommendation engines and bias-aware modelling. A former top-200 Kaggle competitor, he combines practical competitive-data skills with critical thinking about algorithmic impact. He has been an active, pragmatic cryptocurrency investor since 2011, reflecting a long-standing curiosity about emerging socio-technical systems. Colleagues know him for pairing technical depth with healthy skepticism about models and their real-world consequences.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
DPhil Neuroscience, DPhil Neuroscience at University of Sussex
matlab, python, r
Github Skills (74)
sklearn10
beamng10
random-forest10
discrimination10
dask-ml10
networkx10
keras-neural-networks10
partial10
r9
matlab9
decision-making9
lstm9
q-learning9
simulator9
prediction9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
garethjns/MSIModels
Sep 2017 - Oct 2020
Exploring multi-sensory integration and decision making in biologically inspired deep neural networks.
Contributions:78 commits, 12 PRs, 44 pushes in 3 years 1 month
braindecision-makingevent-detectionmulti-modalmatlab
garethjns/DriftDiffusion
Apr 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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