Summary
Samuel Failor is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with a decade of experience bridging academic neuroscience and applied data science. After nearly a decade as a Research Fellow at UCL’s Cortex Lab studying how learning reshapes visual cortical representations, he transitioned into industry roles applying ML and LLM frameworks to real-world problems, from regulatory monitoring for the Gambling Commission to policy analytics for Verian. Based in Cambridge, he combines deep experimental expertise (PhD in Neuroscience) with recent intensive industry training in modern ML, databases, web apps, and LLMs. Known for turning complex neural-data insights into production-ready pipelines, he brings both rigorous scientific thinking and practical engineering to teams building data-driven products.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Neuroscience at University of California, Davis
University of California San Diego