CURRICULUM VITAE

    Name                   John SKILLING
    Date of birth          19 March 1945
    Place of birth         Haltwhistle, Northumberland, England
    Nationality            British
    Marital status         Married
    Education 1955-62 Whitley Bay Grammar School
              1962-65 St John's College, Cambridge
                      Natural Sciences (B.A.)
              1965-66 St John's College, Cambridge
                      Mathematics
              1966-69 Radio Astronomy Group, Cavendish Laboratory,
                      University of Cambridge
              1969    M.A., Ph.D. (Cambridge)

    Career    1969-72 Research Fellow, St. John's College, Cambridge
              1969-71 Postdoctoral Research Assistant,
                      Plasma Physics Lab and Dept of Astrophysics,
                      Princeton University
              1971-   F.R.A.S. (Fellow, Royal Astronomical Society)
              1971-76 Assistant Lecturer in Mathematics,
                      University of Cambridge
              1972-92 Teaching Fellow in Mathematics,
                      St John's College, Cambridge
              1976-92 Lecturer in Mathematics, 
                      Dept of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics
                      University of Cambridge
              1979    Visiting Lecturer in Physics,
                      University College Cork
              1979-81 Partner, Maximum Entropy Data Consultants
              1989-90 President of The International Society For
                      Entropy Research (incorporated in State of
                      Wyoming, 1989)
              1991-98 Director, MaxEnt Solutions Ltd.
              1992-93 Senior Research Associate, Cavendish Laboratory
                      University of Cambridge
              1981-   Research Director and Company Secretary,
                      Maximum Entropy Data Consultants (MEDC) Ltd.
    Research activities
    Plasma astrophysics, specifically magnetohydrodynamics and
                                            cosmic ray propagation.
    Polyhedron theory:
                  discoverer of the last uniform polyhedron (1975).
    Data analysis:
     fundamental theory;
     practical applications to (inter alia)
       optics, radio astronomy, X-ray astronomy, crystallography, 
       magnetic resonance spectroscopy, magnetic resonance imaging, 
       Raman spectroscopy, interferometry, medical tomography,
       chromatography, mass spectroscopy, pharmacokinetics, neutron
       scattering.
    Quantified Bayesian data analysis:
     development of maximum entropy and its successor method,
     Massive Inference (TM), as fully quantified probabilistic
     methods, with extensions and generalisations;
     numerical analysis applications such as
       integration, eigenstructure, interpolation, extrapolation,
       model-fitting, solving differential equations.
    Algorithm development,
     principally concerned with advancement of Bayesian techniques
     as practical tools for numerical estimation of systems with
     many degrees of freedom.


    Academic publications
    Astrophysics           17 papers
    Polyhedra               2 papers
    Bayesian data analysis 50 papers
   
    Academic work has been carried out until 1991 from the
    Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics,
    University of Cambridge.


    Industrial experience

    MEDC Ltd is a small private company set up to advance and develop   
    across  a  wide  front  the  fundamental  advances  afforded   by   
    practical  computer programs for maximum entropy  data  analysis.    
    The company's two principals are Dr S.F. Gull and Dr J. Skilling.    
    The  company  specialises  in the  mathematical  formulation  and   
    solution of inverse problems and has extensive experience in  the   
    practical implementation of maximum entropy algorithms on a  wide   
    variety of computer systems.  MEDC customers worldwide range from   
    individual  academic  colleagues through  substantial  Government   
    laboratories such as the Rutherford Lab, Harwell, and Culham,  to   
    major pharmaceutical, chemical and petroleum companies. 

    MEDC has enabled its founders to work freely on foundational issues.




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