Anastasia Ilina

Anastasia Ilina is a PhD student in AI and Clinical Neuroscience at the UK Dementia Research Institute, Imperial College London, working at the intersection of machine learning, wearable biosignals, large-scale electronic healthcare records and Parkinson's disease research.

She holds an MSc in Artificial Intelligence and an MSc in Translational Neuroscience from Imperial College London, as well as a BSc in Neuroscience from UCL. This interdisciplinary background shapes her work on self-supervised learning methods for human-derived time series, including biosignals from wearable devices such as EEG, ECG, PPG and accelerometry.

Her research combines fractal and complexity approaches with modelling of large-scale electronic healthcare records to uncover meaningful structure in complex biological and clinical data, with the aim of supporting better approaches to Parkinson's disease detection, stratification and monitoring.

Anastasia was the first Academic Fellow to join the Thinking About Thinking cohort and has recently joined the main team as Academic Lead, helping build the academic community and seminar series across AI, neuroscience, cognitive science and related fields.