AI Entrepreneur, Applied ML Expert & Media Commentator

State of the art prediction methods from the Machine Learning academic community applied to real world problems.

Applied Machine Learning

I apply cutting-edge machine learning to real-world problems in finance, health, supply chains and beyond. I’ve led this work at senior levels within major institutions—including Aspect Capital ($7bn AUM), UBS ($500bn+ pa trading), Imperial College London (medical AI), and Unilever (supply chain optimisation). Even fine wine pricing hasn’t escaped my modelling.

Expert Witness Enquiries

I am a Practising Associate of The Academy of Experts, specialising in artificial intelligence and quantitative finance. I welcome enquiries from solicitors and counsel seeking an independent technical assessment.

I can assess whether a machine learning model was tested on representative data, whether a trading backtest used information available at the time, or how much confidence to place in a commodity price forecast. Email me to discuss a potential instruction.

Entrepreneurship

I’m also an entrepreneur, having founded and advised startups across FinTech (Thought Machine), healthcare logistics (Informed Actions), and commodity forecasting (ChAI). I provide AI consulting to global hedge funds and investment banks—helping them translate academic advances into commercial edge.

Academic and Executive Education

I am an Honorary Lecturer in Machine Learning at UCL and a former Research Fellow in AI in medicine at Imperial College London. I supervise MSc and PhD students at UCL and Cambridge, maintaining close links with emerging research and its practical application. In 2026, I co-designed and delivered a Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education workshop on AI Governance for Boards and CXOs.

Teaching & Research

I share what I learn through tutorials and published research. Popular tutorials include introductions to Support Vector Machines, Relevance Vector Machines and the Kalman Filter. I also write about how to think clearly about AI: where it works, where it fails, and how to use it without handing over judgement.

Human Rights

I have long cared about human rights and prisoners of conscience. I have restored a short personal statement on human rights that first appeared on an earlier version of this website in 2010.

Philanthropy

I have also long been interested in the case for giving and the uneven value of money. I have restored a short personal statement on philanthropy that first appeared on an earlier version of this website in 2010.