Babs Khalidson

Babs Khalidson is a highly skilled Product Data Scientist at CMC Markets, with a background in AI and Biomedical Sciences.

With a Master's in Artificial Intelligence from the University of St Andrews, and a Bachelor's in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Durham, Babs has a strong academic foundation.

Passionate about leveraging AI to assist medical practitioners, Babs focuses on applications like medical diagnoses, drug discovery, body monitoring, and brain-computer-interface.

Babs has experience in computer vision and deep learning, including developing models for Alzheimer's disease detection and predicting attention using EEG signals.

Proficient in deep learning models such as convolutional neural networks for image classification and recurrent neural networks for time series data, Babs also excels in machine learning techniques like ensemble learners, neural networks, logistic regression, and gradient boosting machines.

Prior to joining CMC Markets, Babs has held positions at NMPi, Google, The Releaf Group, AVORA, Durham University, Adam Smith International, and Nigeria Infrastructure Advisory Facility.

Babs Khalidson's educational background includes a Distinction in MSc Artificial Intelligence from the University of St Andrews, a BSc in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Durham, and a high school diploma from St. Stithians Boys' College in South Africa.