Iain Emsley
Research Software Engineer at University of Warwick
Greater Oxford Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIain Emsley is a Research Software Engineer with 11 years of experience at the intersection of computer science and sound, specialising in sonification, computational thinking and experimentation-driven inquiry. He combines academic rigour—evidenced by a PhD and teaching roles in digital methods—with hands-on software engineering across research institutions including Warwick, Sussex and the Oxford e-Research Centre. Comfortable moving between theory and practice, he builds research tooling, teaches labs, and supports reproducible research workflows that enable exploratory sound-based studies. Based in Greater Oxford, he pairs an MSc in Software Engineering with a track record of embedding digital methods into humanities and scientific research, often surfacing insights that are as auditory as they are computational.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Software Engineering, Master of Science (MSc) Software Engineering at University of OxfordPost Graduate Award in Technology Enhanced Learning Education Digital Methods, Post Graduate Award in Technology Enhanced Learning Education Digital Methods at University of WarwickInternational Baccalaureate English Maths Biology English History Social Anthropology German, International Baccalaureate English Maths Biology English History Social Anthropology German at Impington Village CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of Sussex2:1 English, 2:1 English at University of Leicester
Github Skills (45)
alpha9
digital-humanities9
doi9
ecology8
metadata7
science7
python7
json-ld7
social-media7
rdf6
data-capture6
schema6
data-wrangling5
social-network-analysis5
google-play-store5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
iaine/unheardcityapp
May 2021 - Nov 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 39 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 6 months
iaine/tactile
May 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:2 releases, 104 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 11 months
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