Hello 👋
I’m a PhD student living in Toulouse, France 🇫🇷. I’m half British 🇬🇧 and half Belgian 🇧🇪. My university 🎓 background is a mix of maths 🧮, economics 💸, and computer science 🖥️. I began my data science adventure in 2014 after watching Moneyball ⚾ and reading The Signal and the Noise 📖. My PhD is at the intersection of database query optimisation and machine learning 🤖. I’m more of a swiss army knife 🇨🇭 then a one-trick pony 🐴, and I’m keen on building an interest in different topics. As of late, I’m especially interested in online machine learning.
I enjoy writing code and I maintain some open-source projects. In particular, I’m the author of creme, which is a Python 🐍 library for online machine learning. I’m also a Kaggle Master and enjoy competitive data science.
Besides work, I like spending time with my friends and my girlfriend, reading 📚, watching movies 🍿, walking, looking at – and sometimes making – modern art, and cooking 🍲. My favorite food is peanut butter 🥜 and my favorite beer is Guinness ☘️. I have a brother who’s into physics and operating systems. My mother runs a quirky restaurant in the French countryside called the Ziboinboin.
If you have any enquiries or simply want to get in touch, then feel free to shoot me an email at maxhalford25@gmail.com.