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alexrutherford/README.md

Alex Rutherford

I'm an Applied Scientist with 10+ years of experience building machine learning systems, simulation models, and decision-support tools across government, international organisations, startups, and research.

My work sits at the intersection of AI, data science, simulation, and public impact. I enjoy turning messy, real-world problems into robust, production-ready solutions.

I enjoy understanding problems, figuring out how things work and how technology can be safely applied to used to build solutions.


πŸ”¬ Current Focus

  • πŸ€– Applied AI & LLM systems
  • 🌍 Geospatial analytics
  • πŸ“ˆ Predictive modelling
  • 🧠 Simulation & agent-based modelling
  • βš–οΈ AI governance and evaluation
  • πŸš€ Building practical AI tools that solve real problems

πŸ›  Tech Stack

Languages

Python β€’ SQL β€’ Bash

Machine Learning

scikit-learn β€’ Keras β€’ spaCy β€’ Hugging Face β€’ MLflow

Data & Infrastructure

Databricks β€’ Azure ML β€’ PostgreSQL β€’ BigQuery β€’ MongoDB β€’ Git

Interests

LLMs β€’ NLP β€’ Simulation β€’ Optimisation β€’ High Performance Computing β€’ Decision Support


πŸ“Œ Featured Projects

I'm gradually open-sourcing projects and research that demonstrate:

  • LLM applications
  • Geospatial machine learning
  • Agent-based simulation
  • AI evaluation
  • Data engineering workflows
  • Production ML systems

🌍 Experience

I've worked with organisations including:

  • Ofcom
  • UNICEF Venture Fund
  • Max Planck Institute
  • MIT Media Lab
  • Meta (Facebook)
  • United Nations

building AI systems that support infrastructure resilience, humanitarian response, policy, and scientific research.


πŸŽ“ Background

  • Physics PhD
  • AI Engineering
  • 10+ years in applied machine learning and computational modeling

🀝 Connect

  • LinkedIn
  • Personal website (coming soon)

Always interested in collaborating on applied AI, open-source ML tools, and technically challenging real-world problems.

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  1. hot-links hot-links Public

    Python project to create and evaluate hyperlinks between documents using LLMs

    Jupyter Notebook

  2. jax_101 jax_101 Public

    Short intro to Jax with minimal toy examples

    HTML

  3. generative_jobs generative_jobs Public

    A notebook to use keras implementation of the VAE to generate new jobs based on skill vectors

    Jupyter Notebook

  4. synthetic_towers synthetic_towers Public

    Notebook describing a naive recursive algorithm to place cell towers according to input population map

    Jupyter Notebook 1

  5. geolocation geolocation Public

    Scripts to grab, parse and store database of place names and set up API for querying

    Jupyter Notebook 1

  6. opinion-mining-south-caucasus/social_media_minner opinion-mining-south-caucasus/social_media_minner Public

    Jupyter Notebook