In this episode, I speak to Dr Lata Nautiyal, a researcher based at Bristol Cyber Security Research Group. We chat about her career journey, great mentors she met, and compare academic life across the UK and India! Follow her on Twitter @latana

How data science helps to keep the lights on

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In this episode, I'm interviewing Sam Young, Lead Data Scientist at one of the UK's major energy suppliers, Ovo. Sam uses complex maths from the smart meter and weather data to predict power demand and, ultimately, keep power networks stable an

Coding for democracy and security?

Dec 4th, 2020 29m 22s

While we often hear about the 'big tech' advances and mishaps, we often forget that there's more to digital technologies than Amazon and Facebook. In today’s episode, I invited two developers, Will and Simon, to talk about their work in "small

How cryptography is changing the world

Oct 23rd, 2020 32m 22s

In today’s episode, we’ll be discussing how a niche field of mathematics, cryptography, is transforming the ways we think about money, security and power. My guest is Simon Oxenham (@simoxenham), science journalist and – as of recently - socia

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