John Skilling: Biographical information

John is Scientific Director of MEDC. He did his Ph.D. (on cosmic rays) in the Department of Physics at Cambridge University, and went on to become a Lecturer in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, and a Fellow of St Johns College.

In the late 1970s, another radio astronomer, Steve Gull, introduced him to the power of the Maximum Entropy Method. John wrote what was to become the first MemSys kernel system, and helped lay the Bayesian foundations for MEM. In 1981 he and Steve founded MEDC to exploit opportunities to apply MEM in other fields.

John resigned his Lectureship in 1990 in order to go fulltime with MSL and MEDC. Thanks to the wonders of modern technology John is able to telecommute from his new home in the West of Ireland, and he makes regular visits to clients both in the UK and further afield.