Sam Davis
Principal Scientist, Machine Learning at Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Davis is a Principal Scientist in Machine Learning with 11 years of experience building state-of-the-art models and shipping production systems across startups and large companies. Based in Cambridge, he currently leads development of transformer-based basecallers at Oxford Nanopore that have set publicly announced accuracy milestones (Q28–Q30) and introduced a novel technique to reduce internal sequence length and compute. He has a strong track record in hardware-aware ML, from deploying efficient ASR models on FPGAs to driving MLPerf benchmarks and producing one of the largest open-source speech datasets. Sam combines deep research chops with pragmatic engineering—contributing lower-level template engine improvements in notable open-source projects and mentoring teams from junior hires to technical leads. He is motivated by applying cutting-edge algorithms to genomics and healthcare problems where improved models have direct real-world impact.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, IrvineMaster of Engineering - MEng Computer Science with Study Abroad, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science with Study Abroad at University of Bristol
Github Skills (6)
template-engine10
text-parsing10
parsing10
haskell10
testing9
static-site-generation8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jaspervdj/hakyll
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
A static website compiler library in Haskell
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Sam contributed to the Hakyll static website compiler library. They focused on enhancing the template processing functionality by adding features like trimming whitespace, conditional statements, and for loops. Their work involved modifying internal template structures, implementing parsing logic, and adding tests to validate the new features, demonstrating a deep understanding of the template engine's inner workings.
compilerhaskell
samgd/procsim
Oct 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:141 commits, 80 pushes, 4 branches in 5 months
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