Darshna is the Lead Data Scientist at Elastacloud and has a broad-ranging experience using R, Python and PySpark to implement and develop a wide-range of machine learning models with data from myriad industries such as finance, aviation, transport, marketing, energy, healthcare and charities. Darshna has a PhD in Neuroscience, specialising in neuronal network dynamics in drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy from which her passion for data and AI stemmed. During the last 3 years she has established herself as a speaker and mentor, having given talks at Tech(K)now Day, Microsoft’s Future Decoded conference, The TFL Data Science Group, UK Azure meetup, Digital Camp UK as well as co-organising and leading the monthly Data Science London meetup group to bring together a community of over 9,000 members together to discuss and learn about the latest and most compelling data science algorithms and use-cases.