Priya Nair

BSc Mathematics

University of Warwick · Coventry

Mathematics at Warwick, with the third year on probability and statistical modelling. Dissertation on time-series forecasts.

• First-class honours

MSc Computing

Imperial College London · London

A one-year master’s in the Department of Computing, weighted toward machine learning. Thesis on evaluating sequence models when the labels arrive late.

• Distinction

Research Engineer

DeepMind · London

Research engineer in the London lab. Built dataset pipelines and evaluation harnesses for applied machine-learning projects, including the science group’s public releases.

• Owned evaluation jobs that compared model checkpoints against held-out sets
• Supported dataset prep for research the London lab published

Practical Deep Learning for Coders

fast.ai · Remote

The fast.ai course, taken while at DeepMind, to keep a practitioner’s loop next to the lab’s research code.

Shared evaluation harness

DeepMind · London

The lab adopted her evaluation runner as the default for one research group: same splits, same metrics, a report a paper could cite internally.

• Became the default runner for the group’s weekly results

Staff Data Scientist

Monzo · London

Staff data scientist on financial crime. Models that sit on the card payment path, plus the features behind Monzo Trends.

• Leads the model that scores card payments for fraud before they settle
• Partnered with product on the category totals in Monzo Trends

Trends category model

Monzo · London

Shipped a clearer merchant-category model for Monzo Trends, so a coffee and a grocery stop land in the buckets people expect.

• Reduced ‘general’ as a dumping ground for known merchants

Borough Spend

Independent · London

A personal notebook of London spending patterns drawn from Office for National Statistics releases. No bank data. Public tables only.

• Charts family spending by region from the ONS Living Costs release