David Emms Email & Phone Number

London Area, United Kingdom

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

• I created OrthoFinder (python) and I built it into the most used software for large-scale gene orthology inference, with over 5,000 citations and 100,000 downloads• Designed & optimised novel high-performance scientific algorithms for analysis of tens of millions of genes• Created a TensorFlow neural network for the inference of quartet trees which exceeds the accuracy of the state‐of‐the art tree inference algorithm by 3.2%.• Created www.SHOOT.bio (Python engine, JavaScript front-end), a phylogenetic search engine & website. SHOOT.bio is an alternative to BLAST, which returns, near-instantly, a phylogenetic tree showing the relationships of the query to its homologs. It has gained 1400 users in its first week.• Published 8 first‐author & 7 co‐author peer‐reviewed journal articles

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

• Designed and engineered a benchmarking platform for protein-ligand docking methods to compare commercial, search-based docking tools and newly developed AI methods.• Research and development of an ML diffusion model (Python, PyTorch) for protein-ligand docking using equivariant graph neural networks• Development of the backend in-house automated drug design platform for scalable, complex design workflows.

Abingdon, England, United Kingdom

• Software engineer for a scientific, object oriented, C++ library of core thermodynamics calculations.• Produced commercial software using requirements tracking, test‐driven development, version control & formal technical reviews as part of a software package with billions of dollars in sales.• Oversaw developments by contractors and junior team members on 3 development projects.• Collaborated on developments with external groups.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Computer Science

Thesis: Analysis of Graph Structure using Quantum Walks

Msci (Hons), Mathematical Physics, First