### Dr. Philip Osborne, Founder <a href="https://elsci.orghttps://github.com/pdfosborne"><img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/20770556?v=4" align="left" height="100" width="100" ></a> ── **GitHub:** [pdfosborne](https://github.com/pdfosborne) ── **Medium:** [@PhilipOsborne](https://medium.com/@PhilipOsborne) ── **X/Twitter:** [@DataOsborne](https://x.com/DataOsborne) ── **Bluesky:** [@philiposborne](https://bsky.app/profile/philiposborne.bsky.social) Guest lecturer at The University of Manchester and The University of Oxford. Winner of two monetary awards from Google ([via Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com/osbornep)). Winner of the University of Manchester Business School's Commercialisation & Innovation Award. Industry experience as a Data Analyst for Aon Hewitt and Punter Southall and private tutor for over 7 years. - **PhD** *in Artificial Intelligence from The University of Manchester.* - Thesis title: *Improving Real-World Reinforcement Learning by Self Completing Human Instructions on Rule Defined Language*. - **MSc** *in Data Science from City, University of London* - Thesis title: *Constructing a Narrative using Markov Decision Processes applied to Data Visualizations* - **BSc** *in Mathematics from The University of Reading* **Publications:** - [Improving Real-World Reinforcement Learning by Self Completing Human Instructions on Rule Defined Language](https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/improving-real-world-reinforcement-learning-by-self-completing-hu) The University of Manchester Library, 2024 - *[A Survey of Text Games for Reinforcement Learning Informed by Natural Language](https://direct.mit.edu/tacl/article/doi/10.1162/tacl_a_00495/112801/A-Survey-of-Text-Games-for-Reinforcement-Learning)*, 1st Author, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022. - *[Applying Reinforcement Learning on Real-World Data with Practical Examples in Python](https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-79167-3)*, 1st Author, Springer Nature, 2022. - *[Switching Contexts: Transportability Measures for NLP](https://aclanthology.org/2021.iwcs-1.1/)*, In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS), Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020. --- **Quicklinks:** [Homepage](https://elsci.org) | [FAQs](https://elsci.org/FAQs) | [New Developers](https://elsci.org/Developer+Guide) | [Contributing Guide](https://elsci.org/Become+a+Contributor) | [App Interface Guide](https://elsci.org/App+Interface+Guide) | [Using the Wiki](https://elsci.org/Docs+&+Wiki+Guide) <div id="sticky-button"> <a href="https://discord.gg/GgaqcrYCxt"><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pdfosborne/elsciRL-Wiki/refs/heads/main/Resources/images/discord_icon.png" width="50"></a> </div>