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Thusal Bennett

Data Scientist (G7 Lead)

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Thusal contributed to Simulation-led decision making during the UK Government Covid pandemic response. He led a cross-functional team within the UK Health Security Agency developing performant epidemiological simulations that informed public policy at the highest levels.

Thusal joined the UKHSA from a career in the private sector, providing Analytics consulting to the Retail, Finance, Legal & Real Estate sectors. He has led teams creating Artificial Intelligence systems to learn from unstructured, sparse & noisy datasets including Natural Language, Geospatial & Time Series data to solve a variety of business problems. He currently applies his skillset within the Office of the CTO, at the Central Digital and Data Office, within the Cabinet Office.