Christin Puthur
Data Scientist
Christin is a data scientist in the Big Data and Helminth Epidemiology Research Group (Chami Group) which studies schistosomiasis epidemiology in Uganda.
Her role involves managing multi-dimensional data collected from the Ugandan SchistoTrack Cohort that includes survey data, images, spatio-temporal data etc. Christin is involved in assisting with data management, developing scripts for various tasks and performing data wrangling.
Previously, Christin worked for a year at OIST, Japan, as a graduate student on three short rotation projects involving statistical analyses of trajectory data and the application of deep learning methods for image processing.
She completed an MRes degree in Data Science and Analytics for Health from the University of Leeds. For her masters project, Christin worked on process mining techniques to study impact of COVID-19 on hospital care pathways. She also holds a BS-MS degree in Physics from IISER Bhopal, India.
In her free time, Christin enjoys travelling and trying out new cuisines.