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Dr Russell Hunter

PhD Computational Neuroscience

Senior Teaching Associate (Online Education and Web Technology), Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge



About me

Russell completed his studies in Mathematics with Computer Science at the University of Stirling and obtained a PhD in Computational Neuroscience researching storage and recall in biologically plausible neural networks.

He has recently switched to industry currently working as a technical lead developing websites, apps, serverless architectures and applying machine learning models after spending 8 years as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge developing large scale novel educational apps to help improve problem solving in prospective undergraduate engineers.

Russell has had a varied career with research involving software engineering, image processing and edtech whilst lecturing Computer Science.

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