As a highly skilled and seasoned data science leader, Ben has helped deliver transformational projects through the application of machine learning in Python in various industries including finance, technology, and e-commerce. With a background and Ph.D. in computational neuroscience, he has designed and conducted wet lab experiments on cell cultures, worked with terabytes of data, run brain models on supercomputers with up to 64k cores, built production systems processing hundreds of thousands of transactions per day, and trained neural networks on millions of text documents. During his time as the head of data science at Loveholidays, his creative problem–solving approach and focus on cultivating a collaborative and supportive environment drove both individual success and innovation within the organization.