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George Cushen

Data Science Leader, PhD

Hey, I’m George 👋

I’m a data science leader, researcher, and former electronic engineer.

I am currently defining the future of data-driven marketplaces - from hyper-personalisation driving the customer experience to marketing and growth.

Previously, my lifelong fascination with artificial intelligence and fashion led me to become an innovator in research on machine learning for visual clothing search and augmented reality fitting room on mobile devices.

I am actively contributing to open source projects, and methods that I implemented are now used for popular mobile apps. In my spare time, I enjoy giving seminars on the practical applications of data science and machine learning.

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Interests

Conversational AI
Graph AI
Web3 & Blockchain

Education

PhD Machine Learning & Computer Vision
University of Southampton
BEng Electronic Engineering
University of Southampton

Featured Publications

A Person Re-Identification System For Mobile Devices

Person re-identification is a critical security task for recognizing a person across spatially disjoint sensors. A practical and efficient framework is presented for mobile devices (such as Google Glass, smart phones, and autonomous vehicles) where high-level semantic soft biometrics are extracted and analysed. This mobile approach may be particularly useful for the identification of persons in areas ill-served by fixed sensors or for tasks where the sensor position and direction need to dynamically adapt to a target. Results are preliminary but encouraging, shedding light on the practical aspects of applying person identification techniques to emerging wearable mobile devices.

1 September 2015

Mobile visual clothing search

A mobile visual clothing search system is presented whereby a smart phone user can either choose a social networking image or capture a new photo of a person wearing clothing of interest and search for similar clothing in a large cloud-based ecommerce database. The phone's GPS location is used to re-rank results by retail store location, to inform the user of local stores where similar clothing items can be tried on.

1 July 2013

Recent & Upcoming Talks

Knowledge Graphs and AI to Hyper-Personalise the Fashion Retail Experience at Farfetch

22 October 2019

Improving search experience with a taxonomy in the fashion domain

16 October 2019

Knowledge Graphs and AI to Hyper-Personalise the Fashion Retail Experience at Farfetch

4 October 2019

From Data Science to AI via Graph Analytics

4 October 2019

Knowledge graphs --enter--> the Hype Cycle

So you have heard the hype about knowledge graphs? How can Pythonistas join forces with Fashionistas to form an authoritative single source of truth for fashion e-commerce, benefiting applications such as Search, Discovery, and Personalisation.

14 July 2019

R Markdown project websites your users will love!

Get started in 5 steps Choose a template 🚀 Click the Edit button on the template details page Download or clone your newly created GitHub repository Open the downloaded repository in RStudio Edit your content

12 September 2018

Deep Learning Product Attributes to Boost Product Discovery and Conversion for Very and Littlewoods

20 June 2018

Deep Learning with SAS Viya to Reimagine Retail at Very and Littlewoods

19 June 2018

Shop Direct: the evolution of our infrastructure toward GPU computing for deep learning

23 January 2018

From academia to becoming a Shop Directioner

25 October 2017

How to Create a Minimal Personal Website for Free on GitHub

9 October 2016

Learn how to create a free website with the HugoBlox open source website builder for Hugo. Choose a stunning template and personalize anything with the HugoBlox website builder - no coding skills needed. Write in Markdown, take control of your data, and publish your new site within 60 seconds.

9 October 2016

Wake Up with Spotify Alarm Clock for Raspberry Pi

11 June 2016

Hate your boring alarm clock? In the first part of this tutorial series, we’ll start to explore how to wake up to your favourite Spotify playlist using your Raspberry Pi.

11 June 2016