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Basics
| Name | Matt Ball |
| Label | PhD Student in ML4Chemistry |
| matt_ball30@icloud.com | |
| Summary | A passionate researcher, with a strong background in chemistry, machine learning and statistics. |
Work
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2024.09 - Present Academic Researcher
AstraZeneca
Industrial PhD combining cheminformatics, machine learning and quantum chemistry methods to improve reactivity prediction methods.
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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
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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
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2024.09 - Present Strasbourg, FR
PhD
University of Strasbourg
Cheminformatics
- Predicting organic reaction conditions using artificial intelligence tools.
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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.
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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
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2025.08.06 Predicting reaction conditions: a data-driven perspective
RSC Chemical Science
A crtical overview and perspective on the use of machine learning to predict reaction conditions in organic synthesis.
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 |