Ross Burton

Ross Burton

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Data Scientist/Python Developer/Technology enthusiast
Suffolk, United Kingdom
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    Technical Co-founder
    VespiTech
    Sep 2024 - Current (1 year 9 months)
    We provided technical consultancy and develop analytical tools. Our primary product Game Oracle offers a SOTA market analysis platform for game developers and a paradigm shift in how developers can view the marketplace. As the technical co-founder I am responsible for the complete product life-cycle, from developing bespoke deep learning models to deploying them as a functional web application for our customers.
  • Cohere
    Data Scientist - Data Annotation (Contract)
    Cohere
    Sep 2024 - Current (1 year 9 months)
    Applying data science and analytics expertise to create large high-quality annotated datasets for state-of-the-art RAG frameworks
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    Data Scientist
    Newcross Healthcare Solutions
    Aug 2023 - Sep 2024 (1 year 2 months)
    Building recommendation algorithms, driving growth through rigorous statistical analysis, and helping cultivate a data science expertise within the company. - Delivering SOTA solutions to a novel recommendation problem - Mentoring and helping to grow data science expertise for the company - Employing causal analysis to understand risks across the business
  • Zifo
    Senior Consultant (Data Science)
    Zifo
    Oct 2022 - Aug 2023 (11 months)
    Senior consultant providing python software development, scientific programming, and data science expertise. - Developed novel proof-of-concept for semantic search of scientific literature using LLMs, deployed with MLOps, and delivered via a REST API and dashboard interface - Solved critical issues for clients trying to expand the capabilities of their ELN with a timely and cost-effective solution utilising AWS Lambda and infrastructure as code - Helped drive internal python and data science training and created tools to improve the quality of our solutions
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    Principal Analyst
    Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
    Jan 2022 - Oct 2022 (10 months)
    Helping to deliver health informatics and develop an embedded data science platform for the critical care directorate at the largest hospital in Wales.
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    Data Scientist/Engineer (Early Career Reseacher)
    Department of Health and Social Care Joint Biosecurity Center
    Mar 2021 - Oct 2021 (8 months)
    Secondment during my PhD studies to help with the governments COVID-19 response. Working as part of the epidemiological modelling group I helped deploy complex models for predicting the R number. Using technologies such as Python, Docker, and AWS, I helped automate and test model output. I was also responsible for designing and implementing a data visualisation pipeline to deliver outputs to senior stakeholders and policy-makers.
  • Cardiff University Prifysgol Caerdydd
    Student Teacher
    Cardiff University Prifysgol Caerdydd
    Jan 2019 - Apr 2020 (1 year 4 months)
    In collaboration with the Doctoral Academy at Cardiff University, I taught introductory and advanced courses in Python programming, as well as a course in data visualisation and communicating research with R/Python.
  • Cardiff University Prifysgol Caerdydd
    Researcher PHD Student
    Cardiff University Prifysgol Caerdydd
    Oct 2018 - Oct 2022 (4 years 1 month)
    Working under the supervision of Prof. Matthias Eberl, I investigated systemic immune fingerprints in patients with severe acute sepsis by utilising machine learning techniques. During my time at Cardiff University, I was involved in numerous projects and had a broad impact, resulting in five first-author publications. As part of my research, I expanded on techniques in Cytometry Bioinformatics to allow for the analysis of high dimensional single-cell data acquired from whole blood obtained from patients with sepsis. I developed a Python framework called CytoPy for improved data management and analysis of complex datasets (https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009071), and created a novel ensemble cluster
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    Biomedical Scientist
    Public Health England
    Dec 2016 - Sep 2018 (1 year 10 months)
    Employed Python to model the performance of a novel binary classification test for urine cultures, reducing laboratory workload by almost 45% (https://bmcmedinformdecismak.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12911-019-0878-9) Using Python and Bokeh.js I geolocated the incidence of Non-tuberculosis isolates in Bronchiectasis patients to assist the research efforts of medical staff. Developed a web portal for accessing large pathology datasets and antimicrobial resistance data.
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    Biomedical Scientist
    Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
    Jun 2016 - Oct 2016 (5 months)
    Worked efficiently during a Pathology services merger with Wexham Park & Frimley Hospitals Resolved multiple IT issues associated with the merger including the rapid creation, testing and implementing of an application for producing batches of barcode labels with site specific formatting
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    Biomedical Scientist
    OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST
    Jul 2014 - Jun 2016 (2 years)
    Participated in a 24 hour shift pattern in both Bacteriology and Virology Instrumental in the verification and implementation of an automated laboratory system for Serology Responsible for training members of staff during the transition to full automation Increased familiarity with all components of a track based blood analysis laboratory, particularly interfacing and middleware data management Leading role in the laboratory's IT support team with responsibilities such as LIMS and associated hardware development, data preparation for management and clinical staff, VBA script development Whilst employed at the John Radcliffe Hospital, I was commissioned by the Virology lead to implement a system for the storage and tracking of serum sam
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  • Cardiff University Prifysgol Caerdydd
    Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Immunology
    Cardiff University Prifysgol Caerdydd
    Jan 2018 - Jan 2022 (4 years 1 month)
  • University of Essex
    Biomedical Science BSc (Hons, Biomedical Sciences, General
    University of Essex
    Jan 2010 - Jan 2014 (4 years 1 month)
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    Using artificial intelligence to reduce diagnostic workload without compromising detection of urinary tract infections
    Dec 2017 - Jun 2019 (1 year 7 months)
    A substantial proportion of microbiological screening in diagnostic laboratories is due to suspected urinary tract infections (UTIs), yet approximately two thirds of urine samples typically yield negative culture results. By reducing the number of query samples to be cultured and enabling diagnostic services to concentrate on those in which there are true microbial infections, a significant improvement in efficiency of the service is possible. The application of a screening process for urine samples prior to culture was modelled in a single clinical microbiology laboratory covering three hospitals and community services across Bristol and Bath, UK. Retrospective analysis of all urine microscopy, culture, and sensitivity reports over one yea
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    Serology Storage Manager
    Aug 2015 - Aug 2016 (1 year 1 month)
    A VB.NET application to manage the storage of clinical serum samples processed at Oxford University Hospitals Microbiology Department. There are up to 39168 samples which must be frozen and stored for various periods of time depending on different criteria, and this application records the location of the serum samples in a manageable database. Notable features: *Automates storage monitoring and manages retention times *Reviews its own database in comparison to LIMS database to perform auto-correction procedures *Easy to use GUI allows for database management to be performed with minimal training
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    The affect of JNK I and JNK II inhibitors on Acanthamoeba encystment, and assessing the involvement of MAPK signalling p
    Oct 2013 - May 2014 (8 months)
    This project has provided me with extensive knowledge of signal transduction and MAP kinase signalling pathways. I have also gained expertise in the pathology of Acanthamoeba and studying this organism in vitro. The project involved an initial assay to assess the affect of JNK inhibition on encystment, which evolved as I found evidence that the conditions to induce encystment are very sensitive. There has been numerous modifications, each providing further incite into this fascinating process. I am currently continuing the assay and performing calcofluor white staining to reveal the exact effect on cell wall structure. Findings so far have proved the complexity of differentiation in this protozoan, with some evidence that a bistable syst
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    Can Oxoid UTI Chromogenic Agar be used in routine enteric investigations to eliminate non-significant Enterobacteriace
    Jun 2013 - Oct 2013 (5 months)
    I studied the possibility of incorporating UTI chromogenic agar into the standard operating procedure used for identifying pathogenic organisms in enteric samples. Commonly non-pathogenic organisms belonging to the family Enterobacteriace (e.g. Hafnia, Klebsiella etc) appear as non-fermenting suspicious colonies on XLD media, which then take time and resources for further investigations. The aim of my study was to assess the ability of UTI chromogenic agar to identify non-significant organisms from Salmonella sp. and Shigella sp. This was achieved by inoculating suspicious colonies onto UTI chromogenic agar along side the currently used media. The theory was that Salmoenlla sp. and Shigella sp. would be colourless, whereas other Enterobacte
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    Assessment of BioRad Beta-Lacta test
    Apr 2013 - Oct 2013 (7 months)
    The BioRad betaLacta test is a rapid detection kit for ESBL producing bacteria belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae. The project I conducted compared the commercial kit to the diffusion disk method and the VITEK method currently in operation at the Ipswich Medical Microbiology laboratory. The kit was impressive and provided rapid results but found difficulty differentiating between ESBL producing strains and AMP-C strains. I found no cost effective or clinical benefit in replacing the diffusion disk method with the betaLacta kit.