George Cushen

George Cushen

A Data Scientist & Product Enthusiast

Hey, I’m George!

I am a Lead Data Scientist at Farfetch, pursuing my vision of reimagining retail to create a smart and personalized shopping experience. I focus on the intersection of machine learning and knowledge representation (knowledge graphs) to build novel solutions that can improve the customer search and browsing experience.

Previously, my lifelong fascination with artificial intelligence and fashion led me to become an innovator in research on computer vision 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

  • Knowledge Graphs
  • Deep Learning

Education

  • PhD Computer Vision & Machine Learning

    University of Southampton

  • BEng Electronic Engineering

    University of Southampton

Recent & Upcoming Talks

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

What is the key to the holistic success of the fastest growing and most successful companies of our time globally? Well, often the key …
22 October 2019 8:00 PM — 9:00 PM London
Slides

Improving search experience with a taxonomy in the fashion domain

Farfetch is the leading global technology platform for the luxury fashion industry. The talk will show Farfetch’s experience in …
16 October 2019 4:05 PM — 5:00 PM London
Slides

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

What is the key to the holistic success of the fastest growing and most successful companies of our time globally? Well, often the key …
4 October 2019 2:00 PM — 2:30 PM London
Slides

From Data Science to AI via Graph Analytics

In this panel, we’ll embark on a journey from data science to AI via graph analytics.
4 October 2019 11:55 AM — 12:25 PM London

Knowledge graphs --enter--> the Hype Cycle

At Farfetch, we are building a Fashion Knowledge Graph to form a rich, authoritative source of fashion knowledge to enhance …
14 July 2019 2:15 PM — 3:00 PM London
Code Slides

R Markdown project websites your users will love!

Learn how R Markdown and Academic can help your team write, collaborate, and publish content online and internally. Examples include a …
12 September 2018 3:30 PM — 5:00 PM London
Slides

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

20 June 2018 7:15 PM — 7:45 PM London

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

19 June 2018 3:30 PM — 4:00 PM Birmingham

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

From mail order to becoming a world class pureplay etailer, we are reimagining retail for our 4 million annual customers. Get insight …
23 January 2018 1:00 PM — 2:00 PM University of Oxford

From academia to becoming a Shop Directioner

After completing his PhD in computer vision and machine learning, George Cushen took a job as the first computer vision data scientist …
25 October 2017 7:45 PM London, United Kingdom

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Recent Posts

Why you should create your website with Academic and Hugo

Why you should use Academic and Hugo to create your website and how to get started.
Last updated on 22 September 2019 9 min read

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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.
Last updated on 21 September 2019 3 min read

Wake Up with Spotify Alarm Clock for Ubuntu Linux

Hate your boring alarm clock? Here’s how to wake up to your favourite Spotify songs using your Ubuntu Linux laptop, desktop, or home theatre PC.
Last updated on 21 September 2019 4 min read

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