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Anna
Currently studying my BSc in AI and Philosophy at King's College London. I like finding patterns in data, exploring the mathematics behind AI/ML systems, and problem solving. You can find me on most platforms under the handle anp-exe.
work
Freelance Data Journalist and Technical Writer, Chess.com
Data driven articles on key events: finding patterns in Chess.com's data and explaining them clearly to a non technical audience.
Website and Communications Director, London Women's Chess Club
Led the full redesign for an ECF award winning club, replacing WordPress with a custom static site on GitHub Pages and saving £500 a year.
Junior Engineer, Team Bath Racing Electric
Worked with LiDAR sensor data on the autonomous car for a top 3 Formula Student team.
Volunteer Coding Mentor, Code Club
Weekly sessions teaching Scratch, Python and HTML to children aged 7 to 11.
projects
Women in Chess, Through the Data
A pandas pipeline over 130 monthly FIDE rating snapshots (47M+ records) and a Monte Carlo simulation using order statistics, modelling how far participation alone explains the rating gap from the top 1 to the top 10,000. Extended with a peak age analysis and a Prophet forecast.
Talks
Two invited talks on the findings, at Battersea Chess Club and Hammersmith Chess Club. Explained the statistics in plain language to audiences of 40+ and took live Q&A.
Press
Covered by journalist Joy Price on Medium, in "Meet the women changing the London Chess community".
Prophet v1.4.0
Authored and merged a pull request into Meta's Prophet, adding a warning for under identified yearly seasonality so users are alerted when a fitted seasonality is not supported by the data.
Mathematics for Machine Learning solutions site
Worked textbook solutions spanning linear algebra, vector calculus and probability distributions, published as a public study site.
AI Slop Detector
A tool and tutorial that scores posts for signs of machine generated text, combining transparent rules with a zero-shot classifier. Codédex Monthly Challenge winner.
education
BSc Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy, King's College London
Competitive Programming Society and KCL Tech Society.
BEng Robotics Engineering, University of Bath
Transferred to King's to study AI. Team Bath Racing Electric AI and Women in Engineering.
Access to HE Diploma in Engineering, Reading College
45 of 45 credits at Distinction, and the highest entry test score recorded on the programme.