Nigel Collier
Chief Scientist at Trismik
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNigel Collier is a Chief Scientist and Professor of Natural Language Processing based in Cambridge with over 30 years working in NLP and AI and more than two decades of academic and industrial research roles across Japan, Europe and the UK. He combines deep academic credentials—a PhD in Computational Linguistics and an MSc in Machine Translation—with leadership experience directing computational linguistics research at the University of Cambridge and holding fellowships at the Alan Turing Institute. Nigel’s career spans industry research (Toshiba R&D, EMBL-EBI) and prestigious fellowships (Marie Curie, JST), reflecting a rare blend of foundational research and applied bioscience language work. Now leading research at Trismik, he focuses on translating long-term NLP innovation into practical systems and partnerships. Colleagues value his ability to bridge rigorous theory and real-world applications, particularly in interdisciplinary projects at the intersection of language and biology. He is known for sustained international collaboration and mentoring that has shaped computational linguistics research across institutions.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computational linguistics, PhD, Computational linguistics at The University of ManchesterBSc (Hons), Computer science, BSc (Hons), Computer science at University of Leeds
Japanese
Github Skills (4)
python-course9
brain-computer-interface8
python5
numba4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nhcollier/PhenoMiner
Aug 2014 - Sep 2021
Contributions:13 commits, 5 pushes in 7 years 1 month
nhcollier/nhcollier.github.io
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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