Mike Lawrence

Bayesian Statistician | Cognitive Scientist | Dual US/Canadian citizen available for roles in either country.

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

About

Experience

  • Principal Data Scientist at PyMC Labs
    May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

  • Statistical Consultant at Self-employed
    Sep 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Adjunct Scholar at Dalhousie University
    2022 - Present · 4 yrs 6 mos

    • Co-supervised research projects undertaken by both undergraduate and graduate students, assisting development of experimental protocols, data analysis and reports

  • Senior Data Scientist at KardioDiagnostix
    Dec 2025 - Mar 2026 · 4 mos

    - Assisted development of algorithms for automated diagnosis of paediatric heart murmurs from heart sound data. - Developed a Bayesian Statistical Analysis Plan to evaluate performance during clinical trials. - Developed simulations of clinical trial end-points from the SAP to inform sample size predictions. - Led efforts to improve both feature engineering and neural network architecture, yielding improved performance and lower cross-validation variance. - Developed an R&D architecture for iterating & evaluating new methods. - Developed a production-ready pipeline for rapid inference, including bayesian uncertainty propagation

  • Co-founder & Chief Data Scientist at Axem Neurotechnology
    Jul 2016 - Aug 2024 · 8 yrs 2 mos

    • Assisted R&D for a low-cost wearable medical device, leading prototype testing & troubleshooting • Developed UI software for wireless device control with real-time analysis and visualization of streaming data • Developed and patented algorithms improving on traditional processing pipelines for neuroimaging data • Developed a novel all-in-one algorithm for the statistical modelling of neuroimaging data, including signal topography, biophysical signal contamination, and spectrographic physics • Developed advanced hierarchical multi-output models to link brain data & behaviour data from clinical trials