Karla’s PhD is about the level of energy services used in different countries with a focus on development. The research involves analysing country-level databases, performing statistical analyses and making visualisations.
Karla holds a Bachelors’ degree in Chemical Engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and an MSc from University College London (UCL).
Karla’s professional experiences before the PhD included working for the non-alcoholic beverage industry in Mexico in the areas of quality, environment protection and operations management.
Yasmin Fathy is a Research Associate at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Before joining Cambridge, she was a Software Developer at Genomics Analytics Group at European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Research Associate in IoT and Machine Learning at Cambridge University, and a KTP Research Associate in Data Science and Machine Learning at UCL. She obtained her PhD from the Institute for Communication Systems (ICS) at the University of Surrey and an MSc in Applied Science and Engineering from the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Belgium. Her research interests include IoT, data analytics, digital twin and applied machine learning.
She is an active reviewer and a technical program committee member for multidisciplinary and international journals and conferences, including CCNC, The Web Conference (WWW), IEEE Systems, IEEE IoT Journal, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, and IEEE Access. She is a Topic Editorial in Frontiers in Big Data: Women in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Initiative, a Data Champion at the University of Cambridge and a member of the Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3). She was a BSF (Become a Science Founder) Fellow for entrepreneurship scientists in 2021 and was awarded MEDASTAR Erasmus Mundus and University of Surrey scholarships.
Yasmin is also a volunteer mentor for supporting students with soft & English skills development at Manara and a volunteer instructor at Code First Girls (CFGs).
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