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Academic Background

I recently completed my PhD in Health Data Science at the University of Cambridge. My thesis was titled “Evaluating and enhancing cardiovascular disease risk prediction using algorithmic fairness”. I was part of the Health Data Research UK-Turing Wellcome PhD Programme, supervised by Angela Wood, Mike Inouye, and Sam Lambert. I have recently started as a Research Scientist as Helmholtz Munich in AI & Environmental Health, where I am using machine learning to better understand relationships between the environment and health outcomes, jointly considering algorithmic fairness.

Before my PhD, I was a DeepMind Scholar in MPhil Advanced Computer Science at the Cambridge Computer Laboratory, supervised by Neil Lawrence. I specialised in AI and ML courses, and my thesis topic was ``Fairness and the bias-variance trade-off”. I was a member of Clare Hall College.

I completed my first-class BSc in Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, with visiting student placements at the University of British Columbia and the University of Waterloo.

After my undergraduate degree, I worked as an AI research consultant, where I joined a start-up company building artificial intelligence software for autonomous vehicles. Here, my research was on the implementation and optimisation of multi-objective route planning algorithms. For this work, I have two patents: Vehicle Route Guidance and Target Speed Optimisation.

I especially love the collaborative elements of research, learning from people from with different perspectives - feel free to get in touch for a chat via Bluesky, LinkedIn, or e-mail cic31[at]cam.ac.uk!

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I am keen to be involved in more science communication work, as I believe public engagement should be a core part of research.

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Personal Interests

Singing is one of my favourite hobbies, and I am a member of Clare Hall Choir. Elsewhere, I have been a soloist, lead vocalist, backing vocalist, and chorister in genres ranging from rock to classical!

I am also passionate about sustainability, and in particular, local sustainability initiatives and growing food. I co-founded the University of Cambridge Allotment Society, where we built a community to grow fruit and vegetables sustainably, and donate excess to local charities. This included writing grant applications for funding, managing the day-to-day running of the allotment, and social media management.

I love learning new things, meeting new people, and keeping active; I have taken up various hobbies to feed this curiosity. I adore travelling, especially exploring nature! My other hobbies include hiking, dancing (ex-UK freestyle display team), yoga, digital art, and photography. I also train in Fujian White Crane Kung Fu and rowed in Clare Hall Boat Club, where I was social secretary and organised the inaugural international training camp for the club.