Sam Neaves
Postdoctoral Researcher at Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSam Neaves is a postdoctoral researcher and software-savvy bioinformatician with 11 years’ experience applying R, Python and machine learning to genetic epidemiology and causal inference. He has moved between academia and industry—spanning a PhD at King’s, genetic bioinformatics at Bristol, a senior research scientist role at Novo Nordisk, and a current postdoc at Cardiff—bridging methodological research and applied data science. His work focuses on Mendelian randomization and causal reasoning in epidemiology, combining rigorous computational workflows with domain knowledge to tackle questions in scarring and genetics. Colleagues describe him as curious and collaborative; outside the lab he’s an avid hiker, walrus enthusiast and owner of a Basset Hound, which speaks to a personality that balances analytical depth with approachable curiosity.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
First Class BSc (Hons) With Placement, Computer Science - Internet Communication Systems, First Class, First Class BSc (Hons) With Placement, Computer Science - Internet Communication Systems, First Class at Bournemouth UniversityDoctor of Philosophy, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy, Bioinformatics at King's College LondonMSc, Computer Science - Machine Learning and Data Mining, MSc, Computer Science - Machine Learning and Data Mining at University of Bristol
German
Stackoverflow
4,797reputation
120kreached
96answers
58questions
prolog
top-5%
Github Skills (58)
web-ide9
magit9
logic-programming9
twitter-api-v29
shacl9
prolog9
swi-prolog9
owl9
rdf8
modeling8
semantic-web8
linked-data8
twitter-api8
semantics8
datalog8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
samwalrus/mapchat
May 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
samwalrus/machine_learning
Mar 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:23 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 1 year 6 months
machine-learning-algorithmsmachine-learninglearning-algorithmsprolog
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