Philip Osborne
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Bath
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPhilip Osborne is a Postdoctoral Researcher and AI specialist with nine years' experience spanning academic research, industry analytics and entrepreneurial open-source development. He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Manchester and founded elsciRL, a PyTorch-based framework that applies LLM agents to reinforcement learning and has led to a US patent filing and EMNLP systems demo submission. Philip combines practical data-analyst experience at firms like Aon Hewitt with a strong teaching pedigree as a guest lecturer at Manchester and Oxford and seven years of private maths tutoring. A two-time Google award winner on Kaggle and recipient of a university commercialisation prize, he focuses on reproducible offline RL methods, iterative LLM refinement, RAG and RLHF. Based in Manchester, he blends rigorous theoretical work with production-minded tooling and a knack for translating thesis ideas into usable research software.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at The University of ManchesterData Science MSc, Mathematics and Computer Science, Merit, Data Science MSc, Mathematics and Computer Science, Merit at City University LondonSt. Edwards OxfordMathematics BSc, Mathematics, 2:1, Mathematics BSc, Mathematics, 2:1 at University of ReadingOxford Tutorial College
Github Skills (19)
scroll10
malmo10
minecraft9
nlp6
natural-language-processing6
python6
artificial-intelligence6
deep-learning5
pytorch5
transformers4
data-science4
machine-learning4
bert4
reinforcement-learning3
microsoft3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
osbornep/rl4rl-website
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:18 pushes, 5 branches in 1 day
osbornep/rl4rl-website_2
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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