Meenakshi Parameshwaran is a data scientist at Prolific, a start-up focused on empowering great research by connecting researchers with participants around the world. She previously worked as a statistical research officer at Cambridge Assessment, where she managed statistical research projects related to examiner performance trajectories and automated plagiarism detection. She also worked at the FFT Education Datalab, designing and implementing quantitative evaluation studies on schools and pupils, and for the Research, Evaluation and Impact Team at Teach First.
Meenakshi holds a DPhil in Sociology from the University of Oxford and an MSc in Computational Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML) from UCL. Prior to her work as a researcher, she taught secondary school mathematics on the Teach First program in London.