Obsessed with learning tech that I think will have a big impact. Former leader of UCL Entrepreneurs, Google Intern, Cambridge Computer Scientist, and current Wellcome Trust Cambridge PhD student in Mathematical Genomics and Medicine.
Things I think will change the world in 5 years:
- Genomic healthcare and medicine.
- Decentralized web.
Available for contractual data science projects, especially relating to healthcare data. Just send a direct message.
Fellow @ 8-week data science fellowship. Worked on a deep learning visual recognition project using Caffe with Tractable.io, and on a NLP project with the UK Government Cabinet Office with their government spending contract advertising portal. From July 2015 to August 2015 (2 months) London, United KingdomVisiting Student Bioinformatician @ From August 2014 to October 2014 (3 months) Norwich, United KingdomChairman @ - Finished "Fake Followers", a fun little project with Will Hines - makes it easy to see who's been buying fake twitter followers. From March 2013 to March 2014 (1 year 1 month) London, United KingdomBusiness Associate Intern - Marketing @ - Handled and analysed weekly Google+ data reports.
- Worked in partnership on the Revolutions in Sound project with RBMA.
- Worked with FRUKT to help define the Google+ Music offering. From July 2013 to October 2013 (4 months) London, United KingdomPresident @ - Won Most Developed Society 2012-13 at the UCLU Societies awards ceremony.
- Rebranded the society to be startup focussed rather than a corporate recruitment funnel. Rejected £2.5k corporate sponsorship.
- Secured £8k NACUE Innovation Fund prize, matched £8k by UCL Advances to implement a student led seed-investment fund. Launch video:
- Fastest growing society at UCL, from From March 2012 to March 2013 (1 year 1 month) London, United KingdomSoftware Intern @ Helped with the restructuring of the new RADTAC website using Node and Express.js. Built a website monitoring system in Python. From July 2012 to July 2012 (1 month) London, United KingdomSoftware Intern @ Helped with feature building and bug-fixing of their iPad application. From July 2012 to July 2012 (1 month) London, United KingdomCleveland @ Work experience with Peter Arrowsmith learning about IP law and discussing whether one of my own ideas was patentable, unfortunately it wasn't! From May 2012 to June 2012 (2 months) Data Scientist @ Found new trends in user activity using data from large online dating companies. From June 2011 to July 2011 (2 months) Research Assistant @ Worked on improving the Cortex Assembler algorithm. http://cortexassembler.sourceforge.net/ From May 2011 to June 2011 (2 months) Norwich, United Kingdom
Master’s Degree, Advanced Computer Science, Distinction @ University of Cambridge From 2014 to 2015 Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics, 1st @ University College London, U. of London From 2010 to 2013 RealAcad 2012 Program @ Stanford University From 2012 to 2012 Norwich School From 2000 to 2010 William Jones is skilled in: Research, Public Speaking, Event Management, Programming, Data Analysis, Mathematics, Python, Business Strategy, Leadership, Team Leadership, Start-ups, Software Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Management Consulting, Social Networking, Teamwork, English