Biography
I am a Junior Research Fellow in Biological and Medical Sciences at Christ’s College, University of Cambridge, and a Research Associate in Neuroinformatics at the Department of Psychology and affiliate with the Department of Clinical Neurosciences.
I am part of the Neuroinformatics lab, led by Professor Richard Bethlehem. My primary research involves analysing neuroimaging and clinical data from memory clinics at Addenbrooke’s Hospital and other NHS trusts around the UK. I use artificial intelligence (AI) and normative models (Brain Charts, Bethlehem et al., Nature, 2022) to develop individualised tools for patient stratification and prognostication. Additionally, I have been applying cutting-edge AI techniques to solve complex healthcare challenges through my involvement in the PASSIAN Project, which focuses on implementing federated learning in the NHS. The goal is to pilot a secure, scalable clinical data-sharing solution that will remove a key roadblock to developing AI implementations for real-world biomedical data.
I completed my PhD in Neuroimaging at King’s College London, supervised by Prof Mitul Mehta and Prof Dominic ffytche, where I explored the neural and cognitive correlates of Parkinson’s Disease Psychosis using multimodal imaging techniques (resting-state fMRI, structural, and diffusion imaging) combined with network neuroscience, transcriptomics, and receptor maps approaches. As part of my NIHR SPARC Award at the University of Cambridge, I worked under the guidance of Prof Ed Bullmore and Dr Sarah Morgan to further expand my expertise in graph theoretical and machine learning analyses, and was later affiliated with Trinity College (Cambridge).
My other projects include computational modelling of cognitive performance and cognitive decline, the investigation of psychotic symptoms across diagnostic categories, and the exploration and classification of multimodal hallucinations (i.e. hallucinations occurring across multiple sensory modalities).
Alongside my research, I am passionate about promoting open access to coding and AI resources. As an ambassador for the Women Techmakers Initiative powered by Google, I actively work towards promoting diversity and inclusion in the tech industry.
Outside of work, I am an avid photographer and a cinephile!