Research Scientist @ Part of the Google DeepMind team, developing general purpose learning algorithms. From February 2014 to Present (1 year 11 months) Senior Researcher in Statistical Machine Learning @ Now at an ambitious London-based tech startup developing general-purpose learning algorithms. From April 2013 to January 2014 (10 months) London, United KingdomJunior Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia @ From April 2011 to April 2013 (2 years 1 month) Business Analyst @ Credit risk analysis for retail home loans. Basel II, scorecard development, securitisation. From 2006 to 2007 (1 year) Johannesburg Area, South Africa

PhD, Statistical Machine Learning @ University of Cambridge From 2007 to 2011 BSc (Eng), Electrical and Information Engineering, Distinction @ University of the Witwatersrand From 2002 to 2005 Shakir Mohamed is skilled in: Research, Statistics, Matlab, Machine Learning, Bayesian statistics, Data Visualisation, C++, Regression Analysis, Statistical Modeling, LaTeX, Data Visualization, Mathematical Modeling, Algorithms, Data Mining, R, Artificial Intelligence