Dr Roberta Piroddi PhD
Data Scientist Public Health, Policy & Systems
About
Personal Statement
I am a public health researcher and a health data scientist. I joined the Department of Public Health, Policy, and Systems in 2019. I hold a NIHR Fellowship in mental health research and I work embedded with NHS Cheshire and Merseyside as a data scientist with the ICB business intelligence. This role allows me to apply my methodological expertise and to focus my research activity to support population health priorities and public health planning and decision making within the regional NHS.
My research deals with the challenge of sense-making in the presence of heterogeneous, ambiguous, and high-volume data from multiple sources to design the best analytical tools to translate the quantitative results into actionable knowledge and evidence to improve population health. Before joining the University of Liverpool, I worked as an algorithm and R&D engineer in commercial multimedia analytics for broadcasting and creative industries. During this work in industry, I honed my knowledge translation, relationship building and stakeholder-listening skills.
I have a PhD in Computer Vision and Machine Learning from the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing of the University of Surrey (UK) and a Laurea (cum Laude) in Electronic Engineering from the University of Cagliari (Università degli Studi di Cagliari) in Italy.