Rebecca Ward

Rebecca is a researcher in data-centric engineering with over 20 years of experience in industry and academia. Her research is broadly linked to energy efficient operation of buildings, with a specific emphasis on the impact of plants on internal environmental conditions. She has developed a bespoke Greenhouse Energy Simulation tool for the ornamental glasshouses at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew which has since been developed for the Growing Underground farm in Clapham, London. This tool forms part of the CROP digital twin developed by the Alan Turing Institute.

Since starting work at the Alan Turing Institute, Rebecca has been developing a methodology for sequential Bayesian calibration of computer models using particle filters. This methodology has been embedded within CROP and provides ongoing calibration of model parameters that facilitates model updating as parameters change in time.

Rebecca is a Visiting Researcher at the Energy Efficient Cities initiative at the University of Cambridge. A full list of publications is available on her personal website.

Rebecca is a Chartered Engineer, a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a member of the Institute of Physics.