Thomas Bury is an applied mathematician, data scientist, and TEDx speaker, currently working in the Faculty of Medicine, McGill University. His research applies mathematics and artificial intelligence to the natural sciences, including medicine, ecology and the climate. He is currently developing methods to better predict and classify cardiac arrhythmia. Besides research, he writes on Medium for Towards Data Science and teaches a range of courses.
PhD in Applied Mathematics, 2020
University of Waterloo, Canada
MMath in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, 2015
University of Cambridge, UK
BA in Mathematics, 2014
University of Cambridge, UK
An accessible overview of how mathematics can help us understand and predict tipping points.
A more technical presentation of my research on using deep learning to predict tipping points.
A 3-minute summary of my PhD thesis at the finals of the Three-Minute Thesis competition.