Experience

ICRC-Weyer GmbH

• Germany
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Statistical Programmer

  • Jul 2022 - Present



Newcastle University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Associate

  • Feb 2021 - Dec 2021

  - Research associate on the streaming data project sponsored by the Alan Turing Institute. - Investigated a discrete-time parameterisation of the multivariate Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (MOU) process. - Developed sparse Bayesian models for an MOU process and implemented them in the statistical software R and the probabilistic programming language Stan.- Compared the efficiency of different samplers for the models through an extensive simulation study. - Paper (accepted for March 2023 issue) in Computational Statistics & Data Analysis on some of my PhD work in the area of time-series metagenomics (see below). Show less

• PhD Student

  • May 2016 - Mar 2021

  - Fully funded place in EPSRC's CDT in Cloud Computing for Big Data (CCBD).- Project Title: Complex Models for Genetic Sequence Data.- Project Summary: Developed more biologically realistic Bayesian models for genetic sequence data in two application areas: phylogenetics and time series metagenomics.Achievements: - Contributed to an extensive Java package that fits phylogenetic models.- Parallelised key calculations, resulting in substantial computational speed-up.- Incorporated more biological realism into phylogenetic models and performed analyses on real data sets (DNA alignments from 16S genes).- Developed a Bayesian hierarchical VAR(1) model for weekly bacterial counts from a wastewater treatment plant that also incorporates chemical and environmental variables.- Presented my work to a variety of audiences (e.g. fellow academics and industry partners from non-technical backgrounds) using posters and presentation software.Publications and Talks:- Phylogenetics paper in the 4* journal, Annals of Applied Statistics (December 2020).- Phylogenetics poster at an international conference (ISBA 2018). - Metagenomics talk at a J & J workshop, Microbial Population Dynamics and Time Series: Methods, Experiments and Data, Ghent University, Belgium (November 2018). Show less

• Workshop Leader

  • Dec 2017 - Dec 2019

  - Taught a series of R workshops covering introductory material, statistical modelling (for example, hypothesis testing) and programming skills to postgraduate students from non-statistical backgrounds.- Workshops comprised lectures using presentations, interactive quizzes, live code demonstration, and practicals, which reinforced participants' understanding. - Advised workshop attendees on how to address their own statistical problems related to their research.



AkzoNobel

• Netherlands
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Data Science Intern

  • Apr 2019 - Jun 2019

  - Worked in the fouling control Research & Development team on a project investigating how biofilm on the bottom of ships affects drag penalty. - Improved experimental design, automated experimental data processing and taught a series of R workshops to up-skill the existing team and, ultimately, build internal data analysis capabilities. - Created a model for drag penalty and provided useful numerical and graphical summaries of the data. - Worked in the fouling control Research & Development team on a project investigating how biofilm on the bottom of ships affects drag penalty. - Improved experimental design, automated experimental data processing and taught a series of R workshops to up-skill the existing team and, ultimately, build internal data analysis capabilities. - Created a model for drag penalty and provided useful numerical and graphical summaries of the data.



Newcastle University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Intern

  • Jul 2014 - Sep 2014

  - Produced online material to aid Business, Psychology and Animal Science students with the mathematics and statistics in their courses, including creating examples, screencasts and computer based tests. - Produced online material to aid Business, Psychology and Animal Science students with the mathematics and statistics in their courses, including creating examples, screencasts and computer based tests.