Prashant Saxena is a data scientist with over 16 years of experience developing mathematical and computational models for complex, real-world systems. He currently works as a Senior Data Scientist at Barclays bank. Prior to this he was a Senior Lecturer in Computational Mechanics at the University of Glasgow , where he led interdisciplinary research at the intersection of mechanics, scientific computing, and simulation.

Prashant has a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Glasgow, and studied Computational Mechanics at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur. Prashant has worked in Germany, Switzerland, and India, and has been recognised with several competitive awards including the EPSRC New Investigator Award, SERB Ramanujan fellowship, and SERB Early Career Research Award. He is a Gold Medalist at the Indian National Physics Olympiad and ranked second in the Indian Regional Mathematics Olympiad.

Interests: Data Science, Mathematical and statistical modelling, Programming

Publications: Github, Google Scholar