Steven Bamford
Associate Professor
Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSteven Bamford is an Associate Professor in Astronomy at the University of Nottingham with 16 years of research and teaching experience focused on galaxy structure, evolution, and the intersection of AI and computational neuroscience. As a founder of Galaxy Zoo and the Zooniverse, he combines large-scale citizen science with rigorous data analysis, contributing to over 150 journal articles and 13,000+ citations. He is an experienced scientific Python developer and educator, having taught Scientific Python and cloud computing to MSc and PhD students across institutions for nearly a decade. His work spans hands-on programming, statistics, and machine learning to turn complex astronomical datasets into robust scientific insight. He also develops research projects exploring the fundamentals and applications of AI, highlighting a rare blend of domain expertise and computational depth. Based in Nottingham, he supervises PhD and undergraduate projects that bridge astronomy and machine learning, fostering practical skills alongside research excellence.
16 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Astronomy, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Astronomy at University of NottinghamMSci, Physics and Astronomy, First, MSci, Physics and Astronomy, First at Durham University
Github Skills (92)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bamford/smpy
Aug 2015 - Feb 2021
Python based SED fitting code
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 7 months
fittingsed-fittingpythonsed
sdpenguin/Brian2STDPMNIST
Apr 2019 - Apr 2020
Brian 2 version of Paper "Unsupervised Learning of digit recognition using STDP"
Contributions:136 commits in 1 year
pytorchdigitunsupervised-learningdeep-learningbrian
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