Vanessa is from London and was awarded an MSci in Mathematics from Imperial College London. For her final year research project, she studied how floating debris, like plastic, clusters on the ocean surface, implementing a new ocean surface model to do this. During this project, Vanessa became interested in how she could integrate techniques from Machine Learning, Time Series, and Spatial Statistics with physics-inspired models; she would like to investigate these ideas further and develop statistical methods with the specific challenges of oceanography in mind.
At StatML, Vanessa hopes to establish a problem-solving approach that uses statistical techniques acquired during the programme, integrated with her expertise in applied and computational mathematics. When not studying, Vanessa enjoys talking/writing/drawing/rhyming about science for general audiences and uses at least one rubber duck to do this wherever possible. She also enjoys crocheting toy animals, making pop-up books, and ballet.
