Shaun Read
Senior Data Scientist
Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolShaun Read is a Senior Data Scientist with a decade of experience applying advanced Python-based statistics, machine learning and data visualisation to real-world problems across academia and industry. Trained as a PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics, he spent years building reproducible, research-grade tools for statistical astronomy and has published work and open-source packages—including Bayesian partial-correlation and MCMC bridging libraries—that bridge scientific rigor and production needs. At Tesco he progressed from intern to senior data scientist, bringing scientific thinking to commercial analytics, automation and graph-style data querying. Shaun combines deep probabilistic modelling skills with pragmatic engineering: he builds tools that make large, labelled binary datasets and ensemble samplers easier to use and scale. Based in Nottingham, he’s comfortable translating complex research methods into deployable pipelines and has a track record of collaborating widely across open-source and research communities. An often-overlooked strength is his knack for unifying disparate sampling tools and scientific workflows, reducing friction between exploratory research and production deployment.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy and Astrophysics at University of HertfordshireMaster's degree, Physics, Master's degree, Physics at Durham UniversityHeathside Sixth Form
Github Skills (200)
probabilistic-programming10
python10
mcmc10
bayesian-inference10
markdown10
variational-inference10
bayesian10
probabilistic-models10
bayesian-statistics10
edit-and-continue10
statistical-inference10
jekyll10
probabilistic10
modeling10
core-library9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
philastrophist/philastrophist.github.io.source
Apr 2019 - Jul 2020
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:18 PRs, 159 pushes, 26 branches in 1 year 3 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
herts-astrostudents/Code-Review
Oct 2017 - Nov 2018
Hertfordshire astronomers code review sessions
Contributions:146 commits, 48 PRs, 71 pushes in 1 year 1 month
pythonreviewomsastronomy
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