Dr Simon Price

Summary

Dr Simon Price is a Research Fellow in the Machine Learning group of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol and a consultant Data Scientist in the Big Data Analytics team of the Insights and Data Global Practice at Capgemini.

Activities / Findings

Our invited article is the cover feature of the March 2017 issue of Communications of the ACM, the flagship publication of the ACM, with printed circulation to 100,000+ computing researchers and practitioners worldwide. The article pdf has already been indiviudally downloaded over 5,000 times, not counting its inclusion in the main whole issue download or online reads of the HTML version.

South West Data meetup

Despite leaving IT Services, I will continue to organise South West Data meetup, a regional network of around 1,000 data professionals and enthusiasts.

Conferences, workshops and other events.

2017

• Mar 31, leave University of Bristol's IT Services to join Capgemini as a consultant Data Scientist in their Insights & Data Global Practice
• Mar 29, Google Machine Learning community meeting, London
• Mar 2, Voxxed Days Bristol - University of Bristol supported South West Data meetup is a community partner for this regional tech conference and has a stand in the exhibition.

2016

• 9 Nov, GW4: Remediating the Archive, Cardiff
  
• Oct 14, W3C UK & Ireland Office Launch, Web Science Institute, Southampton
• Sep 22-23, WUN Web Observatory Workshop#2, Southampton
• Aug 22-23, WUN Data Analysis with Privacy Protection for Epidemiological Research (DAPPER) workshop, Bristol
• Jun 7-10, EUNIS 2016, Thessaloniki, Greece
• Apr 22, EPSRC Research Software Engineer (RSE) Fellowship launch workshop, The Royal Society, London
• Apr 6-7, Alan Turing Institute Symposium on Reproducibility for Data-Intensive Research, Oxford
• Mar 21, South West Data, British Library's Digital Content and Open Data, Bristol
• Mar 21, British Library Labs GW4 Workshop on Digital Humanities, Bristol
• Mar 5, The Bristol Approach to Citizen Sensing, KWMC, Bristol
• Feb 25, VOXXED Days Bristol 2016, Watershed, Bristol
• Feb 22, Bristol Health Partners workshop on Health, Data and the Public Good, Bristol
• Feb 15, Jisc Business case and costing for Research Data Management workshop
• Jan 23, The Bristol API Transport Data Challenge, Bristol
• Jan 19, Kickstarting Bristol Open Data Institute (ODI) Node, Bristol
• Jan 18, GW4 Statistical methods for intensively-measured health data, Bath

2015

• Dec 14, Jisc Research at Risk - Research Data Metrics for Usage: Expert Reference Group meeting
• Nov 11-14, UCISA Corporate Information Systems Group Annual Conference (CISG15), St Andrews
• Nov 9-10, WUN Web Observatory Workshop, Southampton
• Nov 6, GW4 Health Monitoring Methods Workshop, Bristol
• Nov 3, British Library Labs Symposium, London
• Oct 26-30, WUN Data Diplomacy Workshop, New York
• Oct 15, Solving the data curation conundrum, CBR/HDS, London
• Jul 22, DataSHIELD Governance Workshop, D2K, Bristol
• Jul 1, UCISA IT Support for Research Workshop, Nottingham
• Jun 26, IAS Research Workshop 2: Data science for the real world, Bristol
• Jun 3, Cray Executive Forum 2015, Bristol
• Jun 2, Cray EMEA HQ Inauguration, Bristol
• May 22, Bristol Data Dome Workshop, Bristol
• May 1, IAS Research Workshop: Data science for the real world, Bristol
• Apr 30, Building a High Performance Computing ecosystem, Bristol
• Mar 31, JANET Networkshop: Open Data Analytics, Exeter
• Mar 25, MongoDB - a document database for modern applications, Bristol
• Mar 19, Large-scale Visualisation in High Performance Computing, Bristol
• Mar 5, IAS Student Survey Strategy workshop, Bristol
• Mar 3, EPSRC ICT perspectives on Big Data Analytics Workshop, Birmingham
• Feb 5, IAS Student Survey Strategy workshop, Bristol
• Jan 8, Bristol is Open: South West Data meetup, Pervasive Media Studio, Watershed, Bristol

2014

• Dec 4, Mobile Apps in Research Summit 2014, Ideas Lab, Birmingham
• Oct 31, Data Science talk to IT Services, Bristol
• Sep 16, Data Science community meeting, Bristol
• Sep 15, Bristol Gigabit Testbed - user requirements workshop, Bristol
• Sep 3, Big Data on Community Disaster Risk and Resilience workshop (UN GNDR), Cabot Institute, Bristol
• Aug 24-27, KDD 2014: Data Science for Social Good, New York
• Aug 22, WUN Data Science (Big Data) Exploratory Workshop, University of Rochester, New York
• Aug 12, South West Big Data, Bristol
• Jun 20, RDMF11: Workflows and Lifecycle Models for Data Management, Westminster University, London
• Mar 25, UCISA Research IT International Symposium, UCISA 2014 Conference, Brighton
• Mar 12, IBM Big Data Analytics colloquium, Royal Academy of Engineering, London
• Feb 28, HEA STEM Crowdsourcing in HE workshop, Bristol
• Feb 17-19, Big Data: Challenges and Applications workshop, Imperial College, London
• Feb 14, ESRC/UK Data Service Innovation Fund Dragon's Den, London

2013

• Dec 4, Mobile Apps Research Summit, Birmingham
• Oct 6-9, IEEE BigData 2013, Santa Clara, California
• Oct 2, NIHR Bristol Nutrition Biomedical Research Unit Conference, Bristol
• Sep 9-10, Digital Research 2013, Oxford
• Apr 9, Digital Impacts: Crowdsourcing in the Arts and Humanities, Oxford
• Mar 25-26, JISC Managing Research Data Programme Meeting, Birmingham
• Feb 25, Research Data Management Storage Requirements Workshop, London
• Feb 19, CKAN for Research Data Management in an Academic Setting, London
• Feb 15-16, South West Big Data, Hack/Reduce, Bristol
• Feb 6, Bristol Future Cities Demonstrator workshop, Bristol City Council

2012

• Dec 6, Big Data Analytics, London
• Nov 14-15, Research Data Management Forum, Shaping the Infrastructure – Technology Aspirations for Research Data Management, Cambridge
• Nov 13, South West Big Data meetup, Agile Data, HP Labs, Bristol
• Oct 24-25, JISC Managing Research Data Programme Progress Workshop, Nottingham
• Oct 17, JISC Research Tools Workshop, Birmingham
• Oct 10, Future Cities - Stakeholder Workshop, ARUP, Bristol
• Sep 24-28, European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD 2012), Bristol
• Sep 10-12, Digital Research 2012, Oxford
• Aug 29, SW Research Data Management meeting, Exeter
• May 10, Eduserve Symposium: Big Data, Big Deal?, London
• Apr 18, DevCSI UK management steering committee, London
• Apr 4, Data Intensive Computing Symposium, Bristol
• Mar 29-30, DCC RDM Forum - Engaging with the publishers, Southampton
• Mar 20-21, Open Source Junction: mobile technologies and the cloud, Oxford
• Mar 13, UK HPC-SIG meeting: Research Data Storage and Management, Bristol
• Mar 7, Serious Games Institute, Coventry

2011

• Dec 8, e-Learning Strategy workshop, Bristol
• Dec 6-7, International Digital Curation Conference, Bristol
• Dec 1-2, JISC Managing Research Data programme meeting, Nottingham
• Oct 28-29, JISCgeo programme meeting, Ravensborough College, London
• Oct 25, SE HPC Consortium Data Management and Curation workshop, Oxford e-Research Centre, Oxford
• Oct 15, Bristol NextGen11 conference
• Oct 9, Social Sciences Data workshop, Bristol
• Sep 30, Next-Gen Sequencing (NGS) workshop, Bristol
• Sep 20, Special Collections Digital Humanities workshop, Bristol
• Sep 13, Mobile Technologies for Health workshop, Bristol
• Sep 7-8, TransferSummit 2001, Oxford
• Jul 27, MyMobileBristol Transferability workshop, Bristol
• Jul 5-6, Open Source Junction: context-aware mobile technologies, Oxford
• Jun 23, Online Epidemiology workshop 2, Bristol
• Jun 17, Assessment and learning in the digital age, Bristol
• Apr 5-7, ITIL V3 Foundation course, Bristol
• Mar 29-30, Open Source Junction: cross-platform mobile apps, Oxford
• Mar 15, Online Epidemiology workshop, Bristol
• Mar 17-18, JISC New Strategies for Digital Content Conference, London
• Feb 23, Digital Humanities workshop, Bristol
• Jan 21, Research Databases in the Humanities workshop, Oxford

2010

• Dec 7-9, IEEE eScience 2010, Brisbane, Australia
• Nov 23, Research Systems workshop, Bristol
• Nov 12, HPC Symposium: Smarter use of data, Bristol
• Sep 21, JISC XSearch workshop, Bristol
• Sep 13-16, UK eScience AHM 2010, Cardiff
• Aug 31 - Sep 2, WAPA 2010, Windsor

Keywords

• Data Science
• e-Research
• e-Science
• Digital Humanities
• Research Data Management
• Crowdsourcing
• Citizen Science
• Open Data
• Linked Data
• Semantic Web
• e-Learning
• Learning Technology
• Technology Enhanced Learning
• Online Surveys

Memberships

Organisations

Other sites

• Ilrt
• It-services_research

Links

• linkedin
• twitter
•   Explore Bristol Research homepage

Selected publications

• Price, S & Flach, P, 2017, ‘Computational support for academic peer review: a perspective from artificial intelligence’. Communications of the ACM, vol 60., pp. 70-79
• Price, S, Flach, PA, Spiegler, SR, Bailey, CP & Rogers, NJ, 2013, ‘SubSift web services and workflows for profiling and comparing scientists and their published works’. Future generation computer systems-The international journal of grid computing and escience, vol 29., pp. 569-581
• Price, S & Flach, PA, 2013, ‘A Higher-Order Data Flow Model for Heterogeneous Big Data’. in: IEEE International Conference on Big Data. IEEE Computer Society, Santa Clara, CA, pp. 569-573

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Recent publications

• Price, S, Hall, W, Earl, G, Tiropanis, T, Tinati, R, Wang, X, Gandolfi, E, Gatewood, J, Boateng, R, Denemark, D, Groflin, A, Loader, B, Schmidt, M, Billings, M, Spanakis, G, Suleman, H, Tsoi, K & Wessels, B, 2017, ‘Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) Web Observatory: Applying Lessons from the Web to Transform the Research Data Ecosystem’. in: Rick Barrett, Rick Cummings (eds) WWW '17 Companion: Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion., Perth, Australia, pp. 1665-1667
• Price, S, 2016, ‘Academic IT support for Data Science’. in: Yiannis Salmatzidis (eds) EUNIS 2016 Proceedings: European University Information Systems 22nd Annual Congress. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, Thessaloniki, pp. 283-285
• Price, S & Flach, PA, 2013, ‘A Relational Algebra for Basic Terms in a Higher-Order Logic: Technical Report CSTR-13-004’. University of Bristol
• Price, S, Kilbey, DJ, Tredgold, J, Bailey, CP, van Rossum, MJ, Jones, MA & Steer, DM, 2013, ‘Citizen Science and Crowd-sourcing Biological Surveys’. in: Digital Research 2013., Oxford
• Price, S & Flach, PA, 2013, ‘Mining and Mapping the Research Landscape’. in: Digital Research 2013., Oxford
• Covington, M, Bagnara, R, O'Keefe, R, Wielemaker, J & Price, S, 2012, ‘Coding Guidelines for Prolog’. Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, vol 12., pp. 889-927
• Gardiner, C, Gray, S, Price, S, Boyd, D, Knight, V, Steer, D & Cregan, B, 2012, ‘Towards sustainable, enterprise-scale Research Data Storage and Management’. in: Digital Research 2012., Oxford

View complete publications list in the University of Bristol publications system

Projects

• BOS
• BatMobile
• Nature Locator
• SubSift
• Visualising China
• data.bris