Mitchell Dawson Email & Phone Number

London Area, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

• Co-founder and acting Chief Technology Officer of AI diagnostics health-tech spin-out:
• Led pitch to secure Lab10x start-up accelerator funding (250k)
• Designed novel, multi-stage algorithms fundamental to the business’ core product, utilising object detection, image classification and Bayesian inference (patent pending)
• Chiefly responsible for business codebase, encompassing data science, machine learning lifecycle, and web application capabilities
• Developed data analysis code both independently and collaboratively to medical device regulatory standards, using agile methodologies and test-driven development
• Prototyped and deployed deep learning algorithms to Azure ML cloud infrastructure, using continuous integration principles, and tools such as Docker and Kubernetes

Oxford, United Kingdom

• My DPhil, jointly supervised by Prof. Andrew Zisserman and Dr. Christoffer Nellåker, was based in the the field of computational syndrome diagnosis, with the title: "Aiding Diagnosis of Rare Diseases from Photographs.
• Created and documented software pipeline to extract patient data from research articles
• Trained deep convolutional neural networks to classify research figures containing faces
• Developed website solution to enable fast annotation of large-scale retrieved dataModelling facial kinship using computer vision:
• Trained novel, kinship-blind, network to benchmark key bias in current kinship data sets
• Created largest kinship dataset by mining open-source ancestry data. The cleaned dataset contains the faces of over 145k individual people from more than 25k families

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

• Received six months of intensive training in biomedical data science and research skills
• Completed two research projects including Patient Time Series Analysis for Mental Health Management

Stevenage, United Kingdom

• Participated for a second year in the summer internship programme at MBDA as part of the Weapon Systems Simulation & Experimentation (WSSE) department:
• Designed target/tracking-window intersection algorithm for simulation software
• Tested physics simulation software against current state-of-the-art
• Developed a calculator plug-in for use with departmental proprietary software
• Managed full diagnostic and mapping of the department’s hard-wired networks

Stevenage, United Kingdom

• Participated in the summer internship programme at MBDA as part of the Facilities department:
• Audited conferencing capabilities to improve efficiency and reduce cost
• Directed the tendering process for a large-scale conferencing projection system

Dphil, Computer Vision

Mmath, Mathematics