Dr. Oliver King

Senior Research Software Engineer

Oliver completed his DPhil in Materials Science at the University of Oxford where he studied the fabrication of calcium phosphate coatings with drug-delivery capabilities for orthopaedic implants. After this he continued at Oxford, pursuing lab-based research in protein structural biology and early-stage drug discovery, where the bulk of his work targeted enzymes involved in epigenetic gene regulation.

After completing an MSc in Computer Science, Oliver then worked at the Diamond Light Source synchrotron facility where he contributed to the development of machine learning tools such as volume-segmantics and SuRVoS2 for the analysis of 3D imaging data. In addition he worked on automating the analysis of protein crystallisation experiments using image classification and object detection and on a project that engaged citizen science volunteers to annotate a microscopy dataset of a cell undergoing infection by a virus.

Oliver started in the OxRSE group in 2024 working specifically with the Schmidt AI in Science Fellows.

Recent Projects

Schmidt AI in science - Supporting fellows of the Schmidt AI in Science fellowship
Bees - Tracking Bees in videos from experimental chambers
Identifying triggerfish individuals and their behaviours from videos
Visualising the principal components of bird flight from motion capture data
Using deep learning to find unrecorded features in catalogues of astronomical objects
Inverse design of nanophotonic metalenses using deep learning