Sam Olesker-Taylor

I am a Research Scientist at Graphcore, having joined in May 2025.

Prior to that, I was in academia for nine years, during which time I worked with many great people.

• I was an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in the Statistics Department at Warwick (2022–25). My research focused on probability, particularly mixing times of Markov chains and their application, eg, to randomised algorithms.

• I had the pleasure of being supervised by Alexandre Stauffer for my postdoc at Bath (2020–22) and by Perla Sousi for my PhD at Cambridge (2017–20).

• All my papers can be found on arXiv or via Google Scholar; see also the Research/Academia page.

• For academic matters, I can be contacted at oleskertaylor.sam@gmail.com.