Kirsten Crane
Senior Data Scientist
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKirsten Crane is a Senior Data Scientist with 7 years of experience specializing in computer vision, deep learning, and deep reinforcement learning, currently applying these skills to performance analytics in football at Prospect Sporting Insights. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from Newcastle University where her research focused on sim-to-real continuous control and active object tracking for marine mammal conservation, blending rigorous AI methods with real-world ecological impact. With an MSc in Computer Science and a strong foundation in applied psychology and cognitive neuroscience, she brings a unique human-centred perspective to model design and evaluation. Known for translating cutting-edge research into practical sports analytics solutions, she combines academic depth with product-focused delivery and a track record of moving RL research toward field-ready systems.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, Distinction, MSc, Computer Science, Distinction at Newcastle UniversityMaster's by Research, Cognitive Neuroscience, Distinction, Master's by Research, Cognitive Neuroscience, Distinction at Durham University
Github Skills (55)
reinforcement-learning9
gymnasium9
unity3d9
serve9
q-learning9
deep-reinforcement-learning8
intelligent8
machine-learning8
simulations8
hyperparameters8
optuna7
leaflet7
crossword7
openai-gym7
mahjong7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kncrane/CubeTrack
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
Unity ML-Agents Environment for Active Object Tracking with Reinforcement Learning
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 day
unity-ml-agentsml-agentsreinforcement-learningagentstracking
kirstenrichardson/rl-baselines-zoo
Mar 2020 - Aug 2020
A collection of 100+ pre-trained RL agents using Stable Baselines, training and hyperparameter optimization included.
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 comment in 5 months
pytorchstable-baselineshyperparameterrl-agentsoptimization
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