I’m a PhD student living in Toulouse, France. I have studied a mix of maths, economics, and computer science at university. My PhD is at the intersection of database query optimisation and machine learning.

I enjoy writing code and I maintain a few open-source projects. I also like doing Kaggle competitions. If you have any questions or want some consultancy work done, then feel free to shoot me an email at maxhalford25@gmail.com.

Besides work I enjoy spending time with my friends and my girlfriend, reading, walking, looking at – and sometimes making – modern art, and cooking. I have a brother who’s into physics and operating systems (we’re nerds, you guessed it). My mother runs an international cuisine restaurant called the Ziboinboin in the French countryside.