Jonathan Smith
Science Leader Of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab, British Antarctic Survey at NERC: Natural Environment Research Council
Uttlesford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJonathan Smith is a Science Leader in AI with a decade of experience applying advanced machine learning and statistical methods to geophysics and marine operations, currently leading the British Antarctic Survey's AI Lab. He combines academic depth—a PhD from Cambridge and postdoctoral work at Caltech on large-scale, real-time earthquake detection—with practical AI deployments that optimise ship routing and autonomous marine planning to cut carbon emissions. His work spans physics-informed neural networks, neural operators, Stein variational inference and normalizing flows, and has delivered systems that process hundreds of terabytes of continuous data for rapid seismic association and location. Notably, he translates cutting-edge research into operational tools for vessels like RRS Sir David Attenborough, aligning scientific innovation with the UK’s NetZero goals.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Earth Sciences Geophysics and Seismology, Earth Sciences Geophysics and Seismology at University of OxfordDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences at University of Cambridge
Hindi, English
Github Skills (24)
environmental10
earthquake10
signal-processing10
polar10
location10
geoplot9
python9
seismology9
lstm-neural-networks7
multi-task-learning7
attention-mechanism6
gradient-descent6
machine-learning5
artificial-intelligence4
deep-learning3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bas-logist/GeoPlot
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
GeoPlot is an interactive plotting toolkit developed by members of the BAS Artificial Intelligence Lab and designed to be used in combination with other software packages under development by the same team.
Contributions:10 reviews, 73 commits, 14 PRs in 3 months
artificial-intelligencegeoplot
bas-logist/PolarRoute
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Long-distance maritime polar route planning, taking into account complex changing environmental conditions.
Contributions:3 releases, 78 reviews, 282 commits in 1 year
environmentalaccountdistancepolarlong
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