Wil Ward
Teaching Fellow at University of Leicester
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolWil Ward is a Teaching Fellow and researcher with a decade of experience at the intersection of computing, mathematics and sustainability, currently teaching in the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Leicester. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and a First Class MSci in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Nottingham, bringing strong theoretical grounding to practical, data-driven approaches. His work focuses on uncertainty quantification, decision-making under uncertainty, and building confidence in models and data for sustainability applications. Based in Sheffield, he combines academic teaching with active research that translates complex modelling into usable insights for policy and practice. An attentive educator and methodical researcher, he is particularly interested in how quantitative tools can be communicated and trusted by non-technical stakeholders.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at University of NottinghamBosworth Community College
Github Skills (18)
uncertainty-quantification9
gaussian-processes8
inversion7
conda7
machine-learning7
python7
modeling7
geophysics6
operating-system6
earth6
package-management6
modeling-tool5
hydrodynamics4
wrapper4
julia3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gpschool/labs
Sep 2019 - Sep 2021
Repository for labs
Contributions:34 commits, 1 PR, 23 pushes in 2 years
SheffieldMLNet/sheffieldmlnet.github.io
Jan 2018 - Oct 2019
Main site for Sheffield Machine Learning Network
Contributions:144 commits, 17 PRs, 924 pushes in 1 year 9 months
machine-learning
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