Radka Jersakova
Lead Research Data Scientist
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRadka Jersakova is a Lead Research Data Scientist at the Alan Turing Institute with nine years of experience translating cognitive-science expertise into applied machine learning and research software for industry, government and academic partners. With a PhD in Cognitive Psychology and a track record rising through research data scientist roles since 2017, she combines rigorous experimental design with pragmatic model and tool delivery. She excels at bridging interdisciplinary teams—turning complex behavioural and observational data into robust, production-minded solutions. Based in London, she is known for partnering across sectors to deploy evidence-driven models that address real-world policy and operational challenges. An underrated strength is her ability to move projects from exploratory research to reproducible, stakeholder-ready software.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (MA), Psychology and Philosophy, First Class Honours, Master of Arts (MA), Psychology and Philosophy, First Class Honours at University of St AndrewsDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Cognitive Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Cognitive Psychology at University of Leeds
English, Czech, French
Github Skills (67)
markov-chain10
markov10
scaffold10
alan10
chain9
simulations9
science9
mcmc9
monte-carlo9
data-science9
probabilistic-models9
julia8
traffic8
machine-learning8
simulator7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
alan-turing-institute/jbc-turing-rss-equality
Sep 2021 - Jun 2022
Assessing the impact of deprivation and ethnicity on COVID cases in England
Contributions:21 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 8 months
caseshut23hut23-744covid-casesethnicity
project-bluebird/dodo
Feb 2019 - Apr 2020
Scaffold for ATC agents
Contributions:415 commits, 127 PRs, 336 pushes in 1 year 2 months
atcscaffoldagents
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