Sam Davis

Sam Davis is an accomplished Principal Scientist in Machine Learning at Oxford Nanopore Technologies, where expertise in developing transformer basecallers has led to state-of-the-art accuracy in sequencing technology since May 2021. Prior experience includes serving as Senior Scientist and Head of Machine Learning at Myrtle.ai, where leadership in building a machine learning team and the development of innovative automatic speech recognition algorithms were key contributions. Academic experience includes a Teaching Assistant role at the University of Bristol, facilitating undergraduate machine learning courses, along with research focused on connected and autonomous vehicles. Sam Davis holds a Master of Engineering in Computer Science from the University of Bristol and has furthered studies at UC Irvine.