Michael Williams
Research Fellow at University of Portsmouth
Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMichael Williams is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, with nine years of experience in gravitational-wave data analysis and astrophysics. He completed a PhD at the University of Glasgow focused on extracting signals from noisy detectors and has a strong MSci foundation in Physics & Astronomy (First Class). His work blends traditional signal processing with machine learning—dating back to summer projects where he developed CNNs to classify binary black hole signals and applied ML to nuclear physics data. Comfortable moving between research code and publication-driven projects, he has hands-on experience building analysis pipelines and multivariate tools used in collaborative experiments. Colleagues describe him as methodical and curious, often connecting techniques across subfields to squeeze extra sensitivity from challenging datasets.
9 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Gravitational wave data analysis, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Gravitational wave data analysis at University of Glasgow
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (44)
pytorch10
open-science10
artificial-intelligence10
python10
astronomy10
signal-processing10
gravity10
machine-learning10
bilby10
density-estimation10
physics10
core-package10
generative-model10
bayesian-inference10
sampling9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mj-will/nessai-gw
Jul 2024 - Jun 2026
Gravitational-wave specific proposals and reparameterisations for use with nessai
Contributions:2 releases, 20 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 11 months
gravitational-wavesnested-sampling
mj-will/nessai-binder-env
Dec 2021 - Apr 2024
Environment repository with nessai for use with Binder
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 4 months
binder
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