Sandy Nelson

Sandy Nelson is a PhD student funded by the CDT in Biomedical AI. He is researching robust biodesign for cell-free systems using probabilistic approaches, working jointly with the Gutmann group (Informatics), the Laohakunakorn group and the Weiße group (IQB3). He studied physics and experimental psychology at Durham University then a PhD in cognitive science at Edinburgh University. While there, he was involved in research projects at the School of Informatics on computational models of memory and text processing.

In 2017 Sandy joined DeepMind as founding product manager for its Science Team. He program managed the application of machine learning to protein folding and problems in physics including glassy dynamics and Density Functional Theory. Before DeepMind, Sandy spent 10 years at Amazon as a Senior Software Development Manager, where he was responsible for worldwide dynamic personalised merchandising and led teams mining the product catalogue for relationships that drove features like AutoRip, movie discovery on Fire TV and music discovery on Echo.