Ira Ktena
Research Scientist at Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIra Ktena is a research scientist with 12 years' experience building ML and AI systems across healthcare, recommendation, and audio domains, currently leading development of health foundation models at Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford. Previously a Staff Research Scientist at DeepMind, she focused on safe, robust AI and applications in healthcare and science after roles driving real-time personalization at Twitter Cortex and ML research at Spotify. She holds a PhD in Medical Image Computing from Imperial College London and has translated brain connectivity research into clinical outcome prediction during a visiting stint at Harvard Medical School. Known for bridging rigorous academic methods with product-aware engineering, Ira combines expertise in brain graph analysis and applied ML to create reliable, clinically-relevant models at scale.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Medical Image Computing, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Medical Image Computing at Imperial College LondonDiploma Electrical and Computer Engineering, Diploma Electrical and Computer Engineering at National Technical University of Athens
Github Skills (19)
dltk10
medical10
neuroimaging9
medical-image-analysis9
medical-imaging9
image-analysis8
python8
machine-learning8
medical-image-processing8
data-science7
tensorflow7
image-registration7
deep-learning7
computer-vision7
neural-network6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sk1712/gcn_metric_learning
May 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
sk1712/brain_ged
Mar 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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