Bye-Fellow, Director of Studies in Computer Science (IA)
Challenger is Theoretical Physicist working on AI driven mathematical discovery. As an Assistant Research Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Challenger’s work is at the intersection of Physics, Geometry, and Machine Learning. Currently, he is developing new machine driven approaches to AI assisted mathematics through conjecture generation.
At Queens’ he has been the Director of Studies in Computer Science since 2022, and the Adeline Yen Mah Bye-Fellow. He is also a co-founder of the Queens’ Entrepreneurship Society. In the past he did a doctorate in theoretical physics studying Calabi–Yau manifolds with applications to quantum gravity at the University of Oxford, as a Rhodes scholar. Previously he has worked at The Alan Turing Institute, London, the Oxford University’s Department of Computer Science, and the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences in Madrid. As an educator, he has taught Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science to undergraduate and graduate students for over a decade.

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