Tim Pearce
Senior Research Scientist at Microsoft
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolTim Pearce is a Senior Research Scientist at Microsoft Research in New York with nine years of experience advancing embodied AI and world-models. He combines deep academic training—a PhD from Cambridge and postdoctoral work at Tsinghua—with industry research roles across Cambridge, Beijing, and New York, driving cross-cultural collaborations on foundational AI problems. Tim’s background spans both rigorous theory and applied systems, informed by earlier quantitative experience in financial services at EY. He’s recognized as a world expert in embodied intelligence, and his career trajectory shows a pattern of taking academic insights into large-scale research environments to influence next-generation agent architectures.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin Chinese at National Taiwan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Engineering at University of CambridgeMaster's degree Engineering, Master's degree Engineering at Durham UniversityICAS - The Professional Body of CAs
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (75)
cox-regression10
cloning10
anaconda10
counter10
ieee10
generative-model10
bayesian-deep-learning9
autoencoder9
statistics9
adversarial-learning9
transfer-learning9
experiment9
classifier9
python9
language-server-protocol9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
TeaPearce/Deep_Learning_Prediction_Intervals
Feb 2018 - May 2019
ICML paper 'High-Quality Prediction Intervals for Deep Learning: A Distribution-Free, Ensembled Approach'
Contributions:36 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
pytorchpredictiondeep-learningapproachhigh-quality
TeaPearce/TeaPearce.github.io
Feb 2019 - Mar 2025
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:235 pushes in 6 years 2 months
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