Bio

Tempest is passionate about improving lives using sensors, data, and AI. Some of the ways she's driven impact have been through her startup, SoilCards, which aims to make mobile soil testing accessible to the world’s poorest farmers in order to improve their livelihood and protect the environment. She has also developed novel ways to measure cognitive function and mood in people with depression using wearables (CognitionKit). She has used data science to improve physiotherapy for children with cystic fibrosis (Project Fizzyo), and has put principles of responsible AI into practice to build predictive ICU models which treat different patient groups fairly. She is currently a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in Microsoft’s Industry Solutions team, where she is a ML Lead for collaborations with some of Microsoft’s biggest healthcare customers (NHS, Philips etc). She is a member of the Responsible AI board and an ambassador for Diversity & Inclusion, because she believes in promoting positive change as a leader in the industry. She has a PhD in Bioengineering from Imperial College London, with an internship at MIT, and an Imperial College Rector's Award. She is a Technical Advisory Board member of Ultromics Ltd as well as a TEDx and SXSW speaker. Her research has received awards from Innovate UK, the Royal Society, and the US National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine.