Dr Jack Roberts

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Position

Senior Data Scientist, Applied Research Centre for Defence and Security

Bio

Jack is a Senior Data Scientist in the Applied Research Centre for Defence and Security (ARC), transforming the latest developments in deep learning and data science into actionable reports and reproducible proof-of-concepts for real-world challenges.

He originally joined the institute in March 2019 as a member of the Research Engineering Group. In that role he worked on projects in the intersection between software engineering and data science, mostly within the healthcare and urban analytics programmes.

Other activities Jack has been involved in include, developing and teaching the Turing's Software Engineering and Data Science courses, participating and organising Data Study Group challenges and AIrsenal (an algorithm to play fantasy football).

Prior to the Turing, Jack worked at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. He also completed a DPhil and postdoc in Particle Physics with the University of Oxford.