Michael West

Hi, I'm Michael.

I'm interested in how data and technology can be harnessed for social good.

I'm a Deployment Specialist at Palantir, in Australia.

• Mission-driven data analysis, user engagement, project management and software development for Australian government and law enforcement.
• Palantir 101 conference talk

Data analysis, visualisation, research and policy development for Australia's science system.

• Benchmarking Australian Scientific Performance, presented to the Prime Minister, and reported on in The Australian.
• STEM Education and the Workplace, a paper

From 2011-2015, I was the volunteer CTO of 180DC, a non-profit that's the world's largest student consultancy, working with socially conscious organizations to improve their operations.

• BSc (Hons 1 Physics) and BE (Hons 1 Robotics)
• Summers at Sydney Uni, ANU, and Cochlear
• Engineering thesis on self-reconfiguring robots
• Science thesis on scientific literacy
• Why study science?, printed by The Australian
• Geneva meets genetics, on science diplomacy
• Munworks, open-source Model UN software
• Founded New Scientist Prize for Science Writing