Spencer Thomas is a Senior Research Scientist in Data Science at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Surrey. He received an undergraduate master’s degree in physics (M.Phys) in 2010 and completed his Ph.D. in Optimisation and Computational Biology in 2014 from the University of Surrey. His research focuses on machine learning in large-scale high-dimensional systems and multi-modal healthcare data. He is currently leading activities in trustworthy machine learning, curation of large complex data, and healthcare applications in Data Science at NPL.