Mike Walmsley
Applied Scientist, Foundation Model
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMike Walmsley is an applied scientist with a decade of experience building foundation models, currently developing the unified perception, reasoning, and motion-planning model that powers Wayve’s vision for generalisable self-driving. He combines a strong astrophysics research background (PhD, Oxford) and large-scale data-centric methods—having led Galaxy Zoo projects with 100M+ volunteer labels and deployed models for the Euclid telescope pipeline—with hands-on ML engineering in production settings. His work bridges rigorous science and product impact, from grant-funded research and government data science fellowships to startup analytics that delivered multimillion-pound commercial gains. Based in London, he thrives on applying self-supervised learning and crowdsourced data to hard perception problems, uniquely translating techniques from astronomy to autonomy.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
MPhys Theoretical Physics, MPhys Theoretical Physics at The University of EdinburghDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Astrophysics at University of OxfordUniversity of California, Los Angeles
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Github Skills (137)
cnn-classification10
python10
annotations10
mixnet10
standardized10
datasets10
deep-learning10
vision-transformer10
label-studio10
efficientnet10
distributed-training10
bounding-box10
labeling10
imagenet10
optimizer10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mwalmsley/gatsby-starter-lumen
Jan 2020 - Apr 2024
A minimal, lightweight and mobile-first starter for creating blogs uses Gatsby.
Contributions:4 PRs, 52 pushes in 4 years 3 months
gatsbyreactmobile-firstgatsbyjs
mwalmsley/gz-panoptes-reduction
Aug 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:32 pushes in 5 years 7 months
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