CV
Education
- PhD in Statistics, University of Manchester - funded by Alan Turing Institute. Supervised by Thomas House, Ian Hall, and Lorenzo Pellis. 2019-present
- MSci in Mathematics with Statistics, University of Bristol (First Class Honours), 2014-2018.
Work experience
- Named researcher on Covid-19 Rapid Response Grant
- An analytical framework for Test, Trace and Isolate in the UK: optimising and targeting deployment alongside other measures
- Duties included: continuing development of a simulation-based model of contact tracing that can be used to rapidly respond to SAGE and SPI-M queries and to produce decision support outputs. Maintaining a well-tested, readable and high quality codebase. Performing Statistical analysis of data collected by NHS Test and Trace. Collaboration with social sciences researchers to advance modelling of adherence related behaviour.
- UKRI/NIHR
- Supervisor: Dr Elizabeth Fearon, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
- Fall 2015: Technical Business Analyst
- Acturis Ltd
- Duties included: Merging pull requests
- Supervisor: Alistair Ross
Skills
- Conducting mathematical research
- Data exploration, visualisation, cleaning and wrangling
- Statistical analysis
- Implementing machine learning techniques
- Programming using high level languages
- Computing for performance/speed
- Developing a well structure codebase
- Development of sophisticated mathematical models
- Communication of results to non-technical audiences
Publications
Talks
On modelling contact tracing
Talk at Isaac Newton Institute,
Teaching
- Graduate teaching assistant in random models, and Python programming at the University of Manchester.