Bio
Kat is a research data scientist at the Alan Turing Institute. She previously completed a PhD at Queen Mary University of London whereby she developed personalised medicine models in autoimmune diseases. During her PhD, she also participated in the Turing's enrichment scheme to develop her work in machine learning with collaborators at the institution.
Prior to her doctoral studies, Kat also studied Astrophysics (MPhys) at the University of Edinburgh and Biomedical Engineering (MSc) at the University of Strathclyde.
Research interests
Katriona is a member of the Research Engineering Group (REG) at the Turing Institute. While her background is in physics and bioinformatics, she now works on monitoring biodiversity using AI in collaboration with the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Her work focuses on using computer vision and edge processing to develop on-device machine learning models to accurately classify species of insects in the field.