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Basics

Name Matt Ball
Label PhD Student in ML4Chemistry
Email matt_ball30@icloud.com
Summary A passionate researcher, with a strong background in chemistry, machine learning and statistics.

Work

  • 2024.09 - Present
    Academic Researcher
    AstraZeneca
    Industrial PhD combining cheminformatics, machine learning and quantum chemistry methods to improve reactivity prediction methods.
  • 2023.09 - 2024.06
    Master's Research Student
    Sormanni Lab, University of Cambridge
    Research project focused on developing rigid-body protein-protein docking methods using Rust.
    • Rust
    • Data Analysis
    • Computational Biology
  • 2023.07 - 2023.09
    Software Engineering Intern
    TPP
    Summer intership working on full-stack clinical software development.
    • Object-Oriented Programming
    • Agile Methodologies
    • Team Collaboration
    • SQL

Education

  • 2024.09 - Present

    Strasbourg, FR

    PhD
    University of Strasbourg
    Cheminformatics
    • Predicting organic reaction conditions using artificial intelligence tools.
  • 2023.10 - 2024.06

    Cambridge, UK

    MSci (Hons)
    University of Cambridge
    Natural Sciences (Chemistry)
    • Specialised in Computational, Medicinal and Physical-Organic Chemistry.
    • Ranked 2nd in year.
    • Scholarship for academic excellence
    • Prizes for highest mark in Physical Chemistry exams and academic excellence.
  • 2020.10 - 2023.06

    Cambridge, UK

    BA (Hons)
    University of Cambridge
    Natural Sciences
    • Specialised in Chemistry, additional courses in Mathematics covering Multivariate and Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, Group Theory, Probability Theory and Statistics.
    • Ranked 5th in year cohort in final year exams.
    • Scholarships in all three years for academic excellence.
    • Prize in all three years for exceptional exam performance.

Publications

Skills

Chemistry
Quantum Chemistry
Organic Synthesis
Computational Chemistry
Physical Chemistry
Maths
Linear Algebra
Calculus
Statistics
Group Theory
Machine Learning
Self-Supervised Learning
Geometric Deep Learning
Programming (Languages)
Python
Rust
SQL
Programming (Libraries)
Deep Learning (PyTorch)
Data Science (NumPy, Pandas/Polars, SciKit-Learn, SciPy)
Data Visualisation (Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly)

Languages

English
Native speaker
French
Beginner