Matthew Neal

Matthew is a mathematician who develops software to stop bad things from happening to good people. After graduating with first class honours from Wadham College, Oxford, he joined BAE Systems’ Intelligence division where he built a range of data analysis software for a prominent UK government agency, including life-critical real-time analytics systems, large (200+TB) data warehouses, and groundbreaking data visualisation and exploration software. After leaving BAE, he studied for his PhD at the University of Warwick’s Statistics department with Dr Savage, developing machine learning techniques for the early detection of cancer by liquid biopsy