Stuart Wilson
Founder And CEO at Kinematic Trees
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolStuart Wilson is a founder, CEO, and senior academic blending two decades of research into neural networks, self-organisation, and evolutionary algorithms with hands-on robotics and product leadership. Based in Sheffield, he moved from a long academic career in computational and cognitive neuroscience into industry roles since 2023, co-founding Kinematic Trees and serving in senior science and technical leadership at BOW. His work explores how self-organisation and natural selection interact in complex systems like the brain, and he’s focused on translating those principles into embodied robotic systems to test what these algorithms can actually achieve in the physical world. With a PhD in Computational/Theoretical Neuroscience and an interdisciplinary background spanning psychology, informatics, and bioinformatics, he combines rigorous theory with practical deployment experience. Colleagues describe him as the kind of researcher who intentionally closes the loop between simulation and hardware to reveal unexpected emergent behaviours.
8 years of coding experience
Master of Science (MSc) Informatics: Bioinformatics & Neuroinformatics, Master of Science (MSc) Informatics: Bioinformatics & Neuroinformatics at The University of EdinburghDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computational/Theoretical Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computational/Theoretical Neuroscience at The University of Sheffield
Github Skills (13)
simulation10
json10
data-visualization10
graphics-engine10
visualization10
2d10
opengl10
matplotlib10
3d10
axon5
crossword2
cortex1
modeling-tool1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
stuartwilson/ArtificialGeneNets
Jan 2020 - May 2020
Using supervised artificial neural nets to reverse-engineer gene regulatory networks
Contributions:1 PR, 115 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
reverse-engineerregulatorysupervisednetsartificial
stuartwilson/SelfOrganisingMaps
Aug 2019 - Aug 2021
Stuart's self-organising map models
Contributions:78 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
stuartmaporganising
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