Jess has had a broad and varied career focusing on applying AI and ML algorithms to finance, agriculture and medicine. She is the CTO and co-founder of Asteo, a company that builds vertical AI agents for highly specialised industries. Previously, Jess was an AI Architect designing multi-agent systems to map agricultural commodity markets and also worked in financial option pricing, publishing research on hedging strategies in the incomplete market.  

Jess gained her MSci from UCL, where she completed her thesis on the greybox modelling of airway flow for critical care patients on mechanical ventilators. She has given talks at multiple events on AI, blockchain and fintech, in collaboration with the UK Centre for Blockchain Technologies and UCL Financial Computing Department, as well as, supervising multiple masters students. She received the Undergraduate 1st Year Prize in Mathematics.