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Matthew Lewis

Health Data Science MSc @ UCL • BSc Data Science (1st) @ Exeter

I’m a data and AI enthusiast focused on healthcare. I build practical, data‑driven solutions—from machine learning to RAG systems—to improve outcomes and experience.

Education

  1. University College London — United Kingdom

    MSc in Health Data Science

    Modules include: Dissertation in Health Data Science, Advanced Machine Learning for Healthcare, Applied Computational Genomics, Advanced Methods in Data Science and Statistics.

    Dissertation: Designed a Retrieval‑Augmented Generation system for querying clinical guidelines.

  2. University of Exeter — United Kingdom

    BSc in Data Science — First Class Honours (76%)

    Modules include: Machine Learning and AI, Software Development, Statistical Modelling and Inference, Stochastic Processes, Nature‑Inspired Computation.

    Dissertation: Using Large Language Models to match RFQs to suppliers in a B2B procurement platform.

  3. Lycée International de Valbonne — France

    French Baccalaureate with International Option (OIB) — High Honours

Experience

Lead Operator / Junior Data Scientist — Uptime Labs

Part‑time • Remote

  • Planned and executed client engagements at a technology startup (5–10 hrs/week).
  • Delivered projects across data manipulation and visualization for leadership stakeholders.
  • Applied supervised learning to analyze metrics in virtual training scenarios.
  • Led development of an LLM/NLP system to monitor agent performance and fairness in simulations.
  • Built a Flask web app for user interaction with the bias assessment system.

Treasurer — University of Exeter Data Science Society

Exeter, United Kingdom

  • Oversaw finances for a rapidly growing society of 120+ members.
  • Managed budgets for events, including talks with industry speakers.

Skills

Languages

  • English — Native
  • French — Bilingual
  • Italian — Conversational

Technical

  • Python
  • Pandas
  • NumPy
  • Scikit‑Learn
  • Matplotlib
  • Keras
  • PyTorch
  • LLMs
  • OpenAI
  • R
  • Java
  • SQL
  • GCP
  • PySpark
  • Microsoft Office

Past Projects

Disaster Prediction — Kaggle

Built NLP models to classify tweets about real disasters, with a fine‑tuned LLM placing in the top 10% of the leaderboard.

Reddit Stream with Spark

Real‑time data processing pipeline consuming Reddit streams to demonstrate scalable analysis with Apache Spark.

Current Projects

Masters Dissertation — RAG for NICE Guidelines

Building a Retrieval‑Augmented Generation system to answer medical queries with sourced guideline responses. Private during assessment.

Favourite Books

Contact

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