About Me

As of April 2025, I have submitted the final version of my PhD thesis and am on track to receive my doctorate in July 2025.

I am now working as a Data Scientist in the Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO), based at the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health in Oxford.

I perform large-scale individual patient data meta-analyses, methods development, and statistical modelling to optimise the treatment of infectious disease.

My research focuses on improving the diagnosis and triage of patients with suspected severe malaria.

Please see my websiteLink opens in a new window for more details.

Publications

• Scott, Mary, Cormode, Graham and Maple, Carsten (2022) Aggregation and transformation of vector-valued messages in the shuffle model of differential privacyLink opens in a new window. In: TIFS : IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security pp. 612-627. ISSN 1556-6013. DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2022.3147643.
• Scott, Mary, Cormode, Graham and Maple, Carsten (2022) Applying the shuffle model of differential privacy to vector aggregationLink opens in a new window. In: BICOD21 : British International Conference on Databases, London, UK, 28 Mar 2022. Published in: CEUR Workshop Proceedings pp. 50-59. ISSN 1613-0073.

Selected Conferences, Presentations and Prizes

• Warwick Postgraduate Colloquium in Computer Science 2023Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window: Presentation on 'Differentially Private Measures of Statistical Heterogeneity for Vectors' won the prize for Best Presentation in the 'Theory and Foundations' track [SlidesLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window]; was also a Session Chair for presentations in the 'Security' track
• Invited Poster Presenter at Applied Statistics and Risk Unit Partnership Day 2022Link opens in a new window: Poster session on 'Differentially Private Measures of Statistical Heterogeneity for Vectors'
• The Alan Turing Institute Centres for Doctoral Training ConferenceLink opens in a new window: Poster session on 'Differentially Private Measures of Statistical Heterogeneity for Vectors' [PosterLink opens in a new window]
• Invited Speaker at Surrey Centre for Cyber Security, University of SurreyLink opens in a new window: Presentation on 'Differentially Private Measures of Statistical Heterogeneity for Vectors' [SlidesLink opens in a new window]
• Academic Centres of Excellence in Cyber Security Research Conference 2022: Presentation on 'Differentially Private Measures of Statistical Heterogeneity for Vectors' [SlidesLink opens in a new window] and poster session on 'Aggregation and Transformation of Vector-Valued Messages in the Shuffle Model of Differential Privacy'
• The Alan Turing Institute Synthetic Data Workshop 2022: Presentation on 'Differentially Private Measures of Statistical Heterogeneity for Vectors' [SlidesLink opens in a new window]
• British International Conference on Databases 2022Link opens in a new window: Presentation on the accepted paper 'Applying the Shuffle Model of Differential Privacy to Vector Aggregation' [SlidesLink opens in a new window]
• Warwick Postgraduate Colloquium in Computer Science 2021Link opens in a new window: Presentation on 'Aggregation and Transformation of Vector-Valued Messages in the Shuffle Model of Differential Privacy' [SlidesLink opens in a new window]; was also a Session Chair for presentations in the 'Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence' track
• Academic Centres of Excellence in Cyber Security Research Conference 2020: Presentation on 'Extending the Shuffle Model of Differential Privacy to Vectors'
• Warwick Postgraduate Colloquium in Computer Science 2020Link opens in a new window: Presentation on 'Extending the Shuffle Model of Differential Privacy to Vectors' won the prize for Best Long Presentation [SlidesLink opens in a new window]; was also a member of the Organising Committee and Session Chair for presentations in the 'Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence' track
• The Alan Turing Institute 2019: Presentation on 'Scalable Assessment of Linkage Risks' [SlidesLink opens in a new window]

Teaching

2022/23 academic year:

• International Student Research Project Supervisor, World Congress on Undergraduate Research (WorldCUR)Link opens in a new window
• Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant for the undergraduate module Design of Information Structures (CS126)Link opens in a new window
• Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant for the postgraduate module Foundations of Data Analytics (CS910)Link opens in a new window

2020/21 academic year:

• Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant for the undergraduate module Design of Information Structures (CS126)
• Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant for the undergraduate module Programming for Computer Scientists (CS118)Link opens in a new window

2019/20 academic year:

• Workshop/Demonstration Leader for the undergraduate module Design of Information Structures (CS126)
• Online Tutor for the Warwick Online Learning Certificate (WOLC)Link opens in a new window

Contact

mary.p.scott (at) warwick.ac.uk

Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, CV4 7AL