Thomas Riley
Principal Data Scientist
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Riley is a Principal Data Scientist with nine years of experience applying first-principles, statistical, simulation and ML techniques to fleet optimization, rebalancing and real-time dispatching in mobility operations. Based in Amsterdam, he transitioned from academic astrostatistics—where he led development of the X-PSI open-source framework and contributed central analyses to NASA’s NICER mission—to building production data services for a remotely operated car-sharing startup. He combines deep expertise in Bayesian computation, high-performance scientific code (Python/C/Cython/OpenMP) and geospatial-temporal modelling to turn research-grade methods into pragmatic, customer-valued solutions. Known for owning end-to-end systems, he bridges offline learning with low-latency real-time pipelines and collaborates across engineering teams to deploy robust operational models. An uncommon strength is his track record of translating complex, computationally intensive science software into scalable, documented tools used by both research and production teams.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrostatistics at University of AmsterdamMaster’s Degree, Astrophysics, 1st Class Honours, Master’s Degree, Astrophysics, 1st Class Honours at University of Birmingham
Github Skills (35)
simulation10
astronomy10
psi10
sampling10
pulse10
astrophysics10
parameter-estimation10
ray10
astronomical-algorithms10
modeling10
inference9
cosmology7
plotter7
statistics6
spatial-analysis6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
xpsi-group/xpsi
Sep 2019 - Nov 2021
X-PSI: X-ray Pulse Simulation and Inference
Contributions:7 reviews, 411 commits, 12 PRs in 2 years 3 months
statistics-modelingpsisimulationparameter-estimationastrophysical-simulation
ThomasEdwardRiley/nestcheck
Dec 2018 - May 2020
Error analysis, diagnostic tests and plots for nested sampling calculations.
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
statisticspythoncalculationsdiagnosticerror-analysis
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