Hi there 👋

I'm Ross. I'm currently working on Papers With Code at Facebook AI Research. Our goal is to tackle information overload in science and make it easier to find, grasp and extend research.

I've worked on a lot of things in my 20s, including:

• Worked at the UK Treasury during the Eurozone crisis on financial services policy.
• Did my masters at Cambridge in Economics; realized I loved the maths bit more than the econ bit.
• Worked as a quant researcher at a leading firm; researched new modelling approaches for trading various markets.
• Built an open source time series library, PyFlux, with some novel approaches to fill a gap in the PyData ecosystem.
• Worked as a quant developer at a startup; built a quantitative modelling framework now in use at several major firms.
• Started a machine learning startup (Atlas ML) -> co-created Papers With Code to help systemize machine learning information.
• Joined Facebook AI with the PWC team to help accelerate our growth.

So I've tried out a lot of bandit machines :).

On the programming side, I started in my teens working in web development and built several multiplayer games including a football manager game, a nation simulator and some roleplaying games, as well as some popular online resources for video games (such as create-a-character libraries for some fighting games in the early 2000s). Oddly I didn't take the computer science route as I didn't know it was available as a kid, so I went with a more English route and did something humanities focussed (ended up doing PPE as my undergraduate degree...). Thankfully things have gone full circle as I am working on web platforms again with Papers With Code!