PhD student, Elaheh Oftadeh, was invited to exhibit a poster at a STEM for Britain event held in the House of Commons on Monday 13 March.
Elaheh’s poster titled, ‘High dimensionality and cancer’, focused on the introduction of mathematical tools to address the issue of high dimensionality, one of the most challenging aspects of data modelling and analysis.
The proposed tool scans through a predictor variable space with a series of filters that are resistant to irrelevant information and allow only the informative subset to pass through.
What is unique about the method is that it is inspired by two concepts from disparate fields. One is the ‘dimension reduction method’ from statistics and the other, ‘beamforming’, is a staple of signal processing and refers to the technique of removing unwanted interference from a signal by controlling the direction that the signal flows.
As a particular application, this method was applied to cancer data and as a result, a bio-marker network of gene expressions were identified.
Speaking on being selected to exhibit at the event, Elaheh commented, “I am delighted to be selected and have the opportunity to represent our school at this prestigious event.”
Elaheh can be seen pictured above at the event alongside MP for Canterbury and Whitstable, Julian Brazier.