Sam Cox
Senior Research Software Engineer at Health Data Research UK (HDR UK)
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSam Cox is a Senior Research Software Engineer with 12 years' experience specialising in health data infrastructure, high-performance computing and federated analytics. Currently at Health Data Research UK, he designs and builds infrastructure to enable secure, researcher-focused analysis across distributed health datasets, having led university-wide Trusted Research Environment rollouts and CO-CONNECT software efforts. His background combines a PhD in Mathematics with hands-on HPC and parallelisation expertise, translating complex numerical methods into production-ready, optimised code and reproducible workflows. Sam also has a strong track record in training and team leadership, having managed teams and delivered technical training across academic and research settings. Notably, he blends deep theoretical understanding from his doctoral research in computational PDEs with practical systems engineering to bridge research needs and large-scale compute environments.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MMath, Mathematics, First Class, MMath, Mathematics, First Class at University of OxfordDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematics at University of Leicester
Github Skills (3)
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python8
machine-learning8
Github contributions (1)
sam-cox/pytides
Nov 2013 - Oct 2022
Contributions:1 review, 17 commits, 3 PRs in 9 years 1 month
tidepythonmachine-learningprediction
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