Conor Igoe
Founding Member Of Technical Staff at Edison Scientific
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolConor Igoe is a machine learning researcher and founding member of technical staff on the AI Research team at Edison Scientific, based in San Francisco, with 11 years of experience bridging academic research and product-focused ML engineering. He completed a PhD in Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon, where his work and committee roles showed deep engagement with reinforcement learning and experimental design. Conor has interned on applied ML problems across industry—accelerating scientific hypothesis generation and using Bayesian optimization and deep RL for drug discovery—demonstrating a knack for turning complex research into practical pipelines. He combines a strong electronics engineering foundation from University College Dublin with hands-on experience in both startup and lab settings, often contributing to admission and review processes that shape research programs. Notably, his trajectory reflects a pattern of rapidly translating PhD-level RL expertise into roles that influence real-world scientific workflows and product roadmaps.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electronic Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electronic Engineering at University College DublinDoctor of Philosophy - PhD School of Computer Science - Machine Learning Department, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD School of Computer Science - Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (16)
algorithms7
debugging6
api6
lookup-table6
matrix6
python6
spotify6
reinforcement-learning6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
linear-regression5
nodejs5
distributed-computing3
tensorflow2
machine-learning2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cvigoe/href
Mar 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:93 commits, 59 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 7 months
cvigoe/website
May 2022 - Jun 2026
Contributions:54 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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