Gemma Danks

Experience

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  University of St Andrews

  Jun 2005 - Aug 2005

  Research Assistant

  Modelled the diving behaviour of Antarctic fur seals and contributed to a survey of the grey seal population around the coast of Scotland.

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  University of York

  Jan 2009 - Jun 2009

  Postdoctoral Research Associate

  Modelled the control of bud activation using L-systems.

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  Computational Biology Unit, Uni Computing, Uni Research, Bergen

  Jun 2009 - May 2013

  Postdoctoral Researcher

  Devised and conducted data analyses for four major projects and published 5 papers. Analyzed, integrated and visualized large data sets using R. Applied statistical machine learning techniques to reveal patterns in genome-wide data.

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  Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology

  Nov 2013 - May 2018

  Senior Postdoctoral Researcher

  Devised and conducted data analyses and data visualizations on next generation sequencing data to test data-driven hypotheses. Published two papers.

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  Sonat Consulting AS

  Nov 2017 - Jul 2021

  Partner & Senior Consultant

  I apply advanced data analysis techniques to help our customers gain insight into their data and develop artificial intelligence solutions to help them solve problems and provide services, including the monitoring and predictive maintenance of industrial equipment in the marine and power sectors using deep learning.

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  Octofox

  Jul 2021 - now

  Director

  We are an artificial intelligence and machine learning company based in the UK providing consulting services to clients across the world. We help our clients realise business value from their data and gain a competitive advantage with machine learning. Our services include help to establish data and A.I. strategy, identify and prioritise A.I. use cases, set targets and track performance, plan A.I. projects, apply data science & A.I. to business problems, including computer vision, natural language processing, condition monitoring, anomaly detection, recommender systems, back-office automation, customer-facing solutions, optimization, establish data and ML platforms, industrialize A.I. solutions at scale and optimize processess. Show less

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  SKA Observatory

  Aug 2024 - now

  Data Processing Software Engineer

  Helping to lay the groundwork for the next generation of radio astronomy data processing.