Sam Clifford
Research Fellow at The University of Queensland
London, England, Australia
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Top SchoolSam Clifford is a research-focused data scientist and mathematical modeller with over a decade of experience applying spatial and spatio-temporal statistical methods to infectious disease, air quality, and conservation problems. He has blended academic rigor with product-facing experimentation work at Booking.com and currently leads mapping and environmental health research as a Research Fellow at The University of Queensland. An experienced educator and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, he has designed award-winning blended and problem-based teaching for science students and led MSc data challenge modules at LSHTM. His background spans a PhD in physics, postdoctoral work on ultrafine particle modelling, and applied machine-learning in epidemiology—an uncommon mix that lets him translate complex statistical models into practical public-health and product insights.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching, Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U. of London
Github Skills (61)
occupancy9
bed9
shiny8
summaries8
union7
compilation7
crossword7
reduction7
tidy7
diagnostics6
bioconda6
statistics6
r-package6
exploratory6
julia5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
thibautjombart/covid19_bed_occupancy
Mar 2020 - May 2020
Shiny app providing estimates of future bed occupancy given recent admissions
Contributions:102 commits, 15 PRs, 39 pushes in 2 months
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samclifford/samclifford.blog
May 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:22 commits, 131 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 3 months
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