Emma Walker

Emma is a third-year DPhil student in the Nellaker Group at the University of Oxford's Big Data Institute (EPSRC CDT in Health Data Science), where she works with a focus on computational pathology. Her research centres on the quantitative analysis of placental histology, with the aim of transforming subjective pathological assessment into objective, reproducible characterisation with clinical prognostic applications. She is helping develop HAPPY (Histology Analysis Pipeline.PY), a bottom-up computational pipeline.

She previously undertook a MSci in Natural Sciences at the University of Exeter with her master's project focusing on computational neuroscience, and how to design artificial neural networks inspired by the human brain.

Broadly she is interested in developing machine learning models to understand human health trajectories and pursuing this research within women's health.