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I'm a third-year PhD student at [Wolfson College](https://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk){:target="_blank"}, University of Cambridge, in Machine Learning with applications to healthcare and medicine.
I'm a part of the [Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligince for Medicine](https://www.vanderschaar-lab.com){:target="_blank"} (ML-AIM) group supervised by [Professor Mihaela van der Schaar](https://www.vanderschaar-lab.com/prof-mihaela-van-der-schaar/){:target="_blank"} in the [Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics](http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk){:target="_blank"} (DAMTP).
Additionally I'm co-supervised by [Aditya Nori](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/adityan/){:target="_blank"} (and previously [Danielle Belgrave](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle_Belgrave){:target="_blank"}) at Microsoft Research through their PhD Scholarship program with which I am funded.
Previously I completed the Cambridge MPhil in [Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence](https://www.mlmi.eng.cam.ac.uk){:target="_blank"} and the BSc in Statistics program at UCL.
For my specific research interests please see [here](/research.markdown).
Like many who arrive at Cambridge, I've been sucked into the cult of rowing and currently I'm the Captain of the Wolfson College Boat Club.
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Previous to taking up rowing, I trained in [Krav Maga](https://pure-kravmaga.co.uk){:target="_blank"} to the point of being a trainee-instructor. Learning an effective form of self-defence as well as the experience of teaching it pushed me well outside of my comfort zone and to its credit made me far more confident and outgoing.
