Stephen Roberts
Co-Founder & Scientific Advisor at Mind Foundry
Kirklees, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Roberts is a seasoned machine learning scientist and entrepreneur with over three decades of experience translating advanced statistical modeling and Bayesian inference into real-world impact. As Co-Founder and Scientific Advisor at Mind Foundry and a long-standing Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Oxford, he blends academic rigor with product-focused innovation to make organizations "relevant in the machine learning age." His expertise spans mathematical modeling, optimization, pattern recognition and applied AI, and he has a track record of moving ideas from theory into production-grade systems. Stephen also contributes hands-on engineering work, including backend development on open-source projects like the Merchello e-commerce package, where he implemented wishlist, digital-download, and extensible customer-context features. Based in Kirklees, England, he draws on a deep physics background from Oxford to tackle interdisciplinary problems at the intersection of science, industry and commerce. Colleagues know him for pairing intellectual breadth with pragmatic delivery and a knack for simplifying complex inference into usable tools.
13 years of coding experience
Physics, Physics at University of Oxford
English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian
Github Skills (9)
umbraco10
csharp10
back-end-development10
ecommerce10
dotnet-core10
database-design9
api8
apidoc8
sql8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Merchello/Merchello
Jul 2014 - May 2015
Merchello is an open source e-commerce package for the Umbraco CMS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR in 9 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the Merchello e-commerce package for the Umbraco CMS by adding core backend logic. Their work focused on wishlists, modifying the `Wishlist.cs` file, and altering the customer context to handle logged-in members. They also implemented digital download functionality and added code to index property data IDs of digital media items. Several commits involved refactoring and integrating the changes related to handling the extended data.
cmsecommercecommerceumbracoe-commerce
Offroadcode/Umbraco-2FA
May 2017 - Mar 2018
A two factor authentication package for Umbraco.
Contributions:1 release, 6 commits, 4 pushes in 10 months
umbracoauthenticationfactortwo-factorfactor-authentication
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