I’m in the first year of my PhD with Sadra Sadeh’s Lab and Oscar Marin’s Lab in London, where I’m exploring bio-inspired mechanisms for transfer learning, with a keen interest in the role of cortical interneurons and dendritic computation.
find me on twitter/𝕏 @nickybuttigieg or bluesky @nickybu.bsky.social
my background and experience…
a common theme through my technical career has been the use of computational modelling to simulate physical phenomena in the world around us
- PhD Student @ King’s College London & The Francis Crick Institute
- Based at The Francis Crick Institute and The Centre for Developmental Neurobiology at King’s College London
- Community Lead @ Interintellect
- managed Discord community forum, published weekly newsletters, hosted events and supported hosts from around the world
- Software Engineer @ Phalanx Software Ltd
- early startup, <5 employees
- built a platform to manage and configure promotional flows and automate eligiblity and reward tracking
- stack: python, fastapi, mongodb, kafka
- deployed on aws using terraform
- managed office IT infrastructure using terraform, ansible and open-source software
- Neural Engineer Intern simulating neural signal propagation and recording along the vagus nerve @ BIOS Health Ltd
- MSc Computer Science and AI @ The University of Manchester
- machine learning, computer vision and distributed computing
- explored spiking neural networks on neuromorphic hardware for simulating grid cell activity during spatial navigation (click for more info)
- Backend Software Engineer working on APIs and web applications @ Ricston Ltd and Betsson Group
- BSc Software Development @ The University of Malta
- designed a java-based tool for constructing and visualising bidirectional scattering distribution functions for photorealistic rendering of materials (click for more info)