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Top Influencers: 33 UK Research Scientist’s To Follow in 2022

Staff Research Scientist play a crucial role in any startup. It takes an extraordinary person to fulfil the Staff Research Scientist role. We have selected these Staff Research Scientist’s for this list as they are inspiring for a variety of reasons – whether that’s pushing boundaries, creating groundbreaking products, or doing their bit to save the world.

Our analysts did their best to select be best, and most innovative Staff Research Scientist’s. The list is in no particular order!

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Irina Higgins

Staff Research Scientist @ DeepMind

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Hado van Hasselt

Senior Staff Research Scientist @ DeepMind

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Reinforcement learning is the science of how to learn to make decisions through interaction. Deep learning is the science of learning representations, mappings, and functions from data. The intersection of these two fields has great potential, because deep reinforcement learning algorithms give us a means to learn behaviour through interaction with complex problems, by using general learning algorithms rather than having to rely on extensive domain knowledge. In my talk, I will discuss why I’m excited about this research field, I will talk about open challenges, and discuss some recent successes in applying these algorithms to interesting problems. Hado van Hasselt is a Senior Staff Research Scientist at DeepMind. He joined DeepMind in 2014, after doing a postdoc at the University of Alberta with Rich Sutton. He obtained his Ph.D. in artificial intelligence with a dissertation on reinforcement learning at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His research focuses mostly on core learning algorithms that have the potential to scale to rich and interesting domains, and on the intersection of reinforcement learning and deep learning. Learn more about Hado van Hasselt on Crunchbase…

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Praveen Prathapan

Research Scientist @ NASA

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Ali Eslami

Staff Research Scientist @ DeepMind

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Jörg Bornschein

Research Scientist @ DeepMind

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Jorg Bornschein was previously a Global Scholar with the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and postdoctoral researcher in Yoshua Bengio’s machine learning lab at the University of Montreal. He is currently concentrating on unsupervised and semisupervised learning using deep architectures. Before moving to Montreal Jorg obtained his PhD from the University of Frankfurt working on large scale bayesian inference for non-linear sparse coding with a focus on building maintainable and massive parallel implementations for HPC clusters. Jorg was also chair and one of the founders of the german hackerspace “Das Labor” which was awarded in 2005 by the federal government for promoting STEM programs to prospective students. Learn more about Jörg Bornschein on Crunchbase…

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Kamel Nebhi

Applied Research Scientist ML/NLP @ EF Education First

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Aurelien Waite

Research Scientist @ SDL plc

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Aurelien is a research scientist at SDL Research, specialising in Machine Translation. He completed his Ph.D at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Prof. Bill Byrne. Prior to returning to academia, Aurelien worked as a software developer at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. He has experience in building large distributed systems in Java and C++. He is interested in scalable machine learning algorithms that can handle the very large data sets found in Machine Translation. Learn more about Aurelien Waite on Crunchbase…

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Raia Hadsell

Senior Research Scientist @ DeepMind

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Raia Hadsell, a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind, has worked on deep learning and robotics problems for over 10 years. Her thesis on Vision for Mobile Robots won the Best Dissertation award from New York University, and was followed by a post-doc at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute. Raia then worked as a senior scientist and tech manager at SRI International. Raia joined DeepMind in 2014, where she leads a research team studying robot navigation and lifelong learning. Learn more about Raia Hadsell on Crunchbase…

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Raymond Ng

Research Scientist @ Emotech LTD

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Robert Ghanea-Hercock

Chief Research Scientist @ BT

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Robert Ghanea-Hercock is a Chief Researcher in the BT Security Research Practice. He has over thirty international publications in AI and security concepts, in addition to fourteen filed patents. Professionally he is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the British Computer Society. He is also an Associate Fellow at the Said Business School in Oxford University. He has also served as a data science expert for the UK Defence Science Advisory Council (DSAC), and was a Business Research Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico. His current research focus is on applying machine learning algorithms to Visual Analytics and Big Data. Learn more about Robert Ghanea-Hercock on Crunchbase…

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Bernardino Romera Paredes

Research Scientist @ DeepMind

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Dominic Masters

Research Scientist @ Graphcore

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Dominic Masters is the Research Scientist at Graphcore. Learn more about Dominic Masters on Crunchbase…

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Sarah Parisot

Senior Research Scientist @ Huawei Technologies

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Karl Tuyls

Staff Research Scientist @ DeepMind

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Karl Tuyls is a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. Learn more about Karl Tuyls on Crunchbase…

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Shane Gu

Research Scientist @ Google

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Sander Dieleman

Research Scientist @ DeepMind

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David Attwater

Senior Research Scientist @ Talkmap

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Silvia Chiappa

Senior Staff Research Scientist @ DeepMind

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Silvia Chiappa is a Senior Staff Research Scientist at DeepMind. Learn more about Silvia Chiappa on Crunchbase…

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Julien Perolat

Research Scientist @ DeepMind

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Julien Perolat is a Research Scientist at chez DeepMind. Learn more about Julien Perolat on Crunchbase…

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Hector Page

Research Scientist @ Privitar

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Hector Page is a Research Scientist at Privitar. Learn more about Hector Page on Crunchbase…

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Marta Garnello

Research Scientist @ DeepMind

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Marta is a research scientist at DeepMind and also currently halfway through her PhD at Imperial College London under the supervision of Prof Murray Shanahan. Her research interests include deep generative models and reinforcement learning, in particular finding meaningful representations using the former to improve the latter. Learn more about Marta Garnello on Crunchbase…

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Katriel Cohn-Gordon

Research Scientist @ Meta

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Katriel Cohn-Gordon is a research scientist, with a PhD from the University of Oxford in information security and applied cryptography. His research aims to formalise and prove the security of some of the protocols underlying today’s Internet; recent work includes working on the Messaging Layer Security IETF standard for encrypted group messaging and a formal analysis of the Signal messaging protocol used by WhatsApp and many others. He’s also been seen writing fuzzers for WebRTC at Google’s Stockholm office, holds a master’s degree in mathematics and computer science, and has reviewed papers for various top academic conferences. Learn more about Katriel Cohn-Gordon on Crunchbase…

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Dr Alex Moozyckine

Research Scientist @ University of Greenwich

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Scott Reed

Research Scientist @ DeepMind

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Sharon Lamb

Manager, Senior Research Scientist II @ Bristol Myers Squibb

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Giorgio Orsi

Senior Research Scientist @ Meltwater

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Giorgio Orsi is a Senior Research Scientist at Meltwater and an Honorary Researcher at the School of Computer Science of the University of Birmingham. His research deals with the algorithmic aspects of large-scale data processing and with the logical foundations of information integration and knowledge representation. Giorgio is a co-investigator of the EPSRC Programme Grant VADA (Value Added Data Systems) and a co-founder of Wrapidity, an Oxford University startup, that was recently acquired by Meltwater to boost collection of outside data using AI. Learn more about Giorgio Orsi on Crunchbase…

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Robert Hercock

Chief Research Scientist @ BT

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Robert Hercock is a Chief Research Scientist in the British Telecommunications Security Research Practice. He has over twenty years’ experience in leading security research projects in the UK, and was theme leader for Cyber Security in the UK MOD Information Fusion Defence Technology Centre. His research interests include Cyber Security, A.I, Robotics and Complex Adaptive Systems. He is currently a member of the Royal Society Science and Industry Committee. He has chaired an international workshop on adaptive cyber defense, and has over thirty international publications in AI and security concepts, in addition to thirty filed patents. Professionally he is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the British Computer Society. He was also a Visiting Fellow at the School of Computer Science at Southampton University, and Associate Fellow at the Said Business School in Oxford University; in addition he is an Honorary Fellow at Imperial College. He has also served for several years as an independent technical expert for the UK Defence Science Advisory Council (DSAC), and was a Business Research Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico. Learn more about Robert Hercock on Crunchbase…

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Viktoriya Krakovna

Senior Research Scientist @ DeepMind

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Victoria Krakovna is a Senior Research Scientist at DeepMind. Learn more about Viktoriya Krakovna on Crunchbase…

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Janusz Marecki

Senior Research Scientist @ DeepMind

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Danilo Jimenez Rezende

Senior Staff Research Scientist @ DeepMind

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Danilo Jimenez Rezende is a Senior Staff Research Scientist at DeepMind. Learn more about Danilo Jimenez Rezende on Crunchbase…

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Nick Baustert

Research Scientist – Devices @ Sprint

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Relja Arandjelovic

Senior Research Scientist @ DeepMind

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Adam Kosiorek

Research Scientist @ DeepMind

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