I completed the MSci Mathematics course at King's College London (KCL) with a First Class in July 2019 and was awarded a PhD in Statistics at KCL in November 2024 under the supervision of Prof. Steven Gilmour and Dr. Davide Pigoli. Following this, I am continuing my research as a Visiting Research Associate in Statistics within the Mathematics Department at KCL.

During my PhD I have been assessing methods in signal processing, time series and functional data. Ideas from these domains have been pooled to construct a methodology for detecting noise within accelerometer signals so that these can be omitted before downstream processing. This methodology has been applied to tremor data from participants within our study. Other work includes analysing results from out study into Bradyphrenia - the slowing of cognitive processing associated with Parkinson's Disease, which reveal the potential for an iatrogenic component associated with anti-parkinsonian drugs. This work has been published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine. 

I collaborated with the UKHSA, Alan Turing Institute, and other researchers from Oxford, Imperial and UCL in assessing whether COVID-19 could be detected from the sound of cough or voice using various machine learning frameworks. Our papers can be found at the bottom of my blog post published by the Alan Turing Institute here. Part of my research during my PhD has been investigating whether the findings from this study can also be found in the literature using phonetic sounds to classify Parkinson's Disease. Data, methodology and results from this study have been published in Nature Scientific Data, Statistics in Medicine, and Nature Machine Intelligence.

I am currently a Senior Data Scientist with Acin, an AI scale-up using cutting edge language modelling and a large data network of the industries operational risk landscape to make to financial system safer. I work primarily on problems applying NLP models to graph data structures, developing prompt engineering strategies for LLMs, and MLOps infrastructure & model governance requirements. 

This website will be used to post tutorial notes and solutions from my tutorials at KCL. The questions on these worksheets are taken from the lecturer's tutorial sheets, and aim to cover key issues within the courses. The tutorials will not be able to cover every topic or style of question due to time constraints, so be sure to complete all other exercises and make use of past exam papers. Please address any questions to myself at kieran.baker@kcl.ac.uk.