Tom Bishop
Senior Data Scientist
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTom Bishop is a Senior Data Scientist with 11 years’ experience applying machine learning and data engineering to health, retail and finance problems, currently leading technical work packages at the University of Cambridge. He designs and delivers large-scale cohort data platforms for international research networks (EUCAN-Connect, InterConnect) and prototypes practical ML solutions—from classifying takeaway outlets by name to automating handwritten food-diary transcription. Comfortable at the interface of business and tech, he has a track record of turning complex requirements into production-ready systems and has previously built demand-forecasting pipelines and forensic analytics at Tesco. Trained as a mechanical engineer at Cambridge, he brings strong systems thinking and an appetite for building tools that answer real-world health and environmental research questions. An inquisitive practitioner, he pairs academic-scale data challenges with pragmatic engineering approaches such as web scraping and image-based measurement of the built environment.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Masters (Distinction), Mechanical Engineering, Masters (Distinction), Mechanical Engineering at University of Cambridge
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (94)
cox-regression10
objectionjs9
meta-analysis9
linear-models8
proportional8
beta-versions8
faunadb8
survival-analysis8
timesheet8
child-process8
server-side7
traits7
stateless7
json-ui-schema7
cox7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
epi-analysis/SRCP_docs
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:235 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 10 months
tombisho/dsBase
Oct 2019 - May 2022
DataSHIELD server site base functions
Contributions:2 PRs, 62 pushes, 29 branches in 2 years 7 months
datashield
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