Usman is a Machine Learning Engineer at Xebia Data. He has a BSc in Physics from Imperial College London and a MSc in Data Science from the University of Edinburgh. He has worked at a professional services company where he developed data solutions for a global userbase and at a startup in the automotive industry where he both developed and implemented data science solutions. He has also worked within the Insect Robotics research group at the University of Edinburgh where he specialised in computational neuroscience and was able to combine his theoretical knowledge and software engineering skills to perform complex simulations of biological processes in the brain.