Christina Last
SSI fellow
The Alan Turing Institute
The Alan Turing Institute
Interests
- Social networks
- Spatial analytics
- Knowledge representation
- Neural networks
- Multi-agent systems
- Supervised learning
- Natural language processing
Biography
Christina Last is a Research Data Scientist in the Research Engineering Group at the Turing, where she specialises in building machine learning solutions to understand our built environment. Her work bridges active mobility, urban data science, and machine learning operations. Christina has collaborated with a number of city governments and international organizations on software, data science, and strategic planning, in both developed and rapidly developing urban environments in the US, the UK, and Vietnam. She has led various international research projects, most recently as a Senior Data Scientist collaborating with UNICEF to model air quality during COVID-19 lockdowns using machine learning.
Before joining the Turing, Christina was the Lead Data Scientist at a property technology start up, where she managed the development of the data ecosystem and machine learning algorithms to aid the real estate investment deal flow - from sourcing and purchasing to managing residential real estate. She holds a Bachelors from the Department of Geography at the University of Bristol, and completed a sabbatical at the University of California. In her spare time Christina, devotes her time to building tech communities as the AICamp London Chapter Lead, most recently forming a partnership with Google London.
Online Presence
Check out contributions by and mentions of Christina Last on www.software.ac.uk