Victoria Sherratt · Manchester, UK
Six years as co-founder and Director of Data Science of a data consultancy serving over 40 UK higher-education institutions, owning the technical agenda and developing agentic AI pipelines and bespoke analytical products. Alongside that, a PhD in computer science developing symbolic and subsymbolic methods for multimodal understanding, with six first-author publications and an openly released knowledge graph dataset.
Technical strategy, analytical methodology, infrastructure and data governance for organisations working with large-scale data. Designing agentic pipelines, production AI systems, and developing technical teams. My industry work focuses on turning current research into deployed applications and developing solutions for complex problems that non-technical stakeholders can act on.
Multimodal machine learning and vision-language models; knowledge graphs and neuro-symbolic AI; computational semantics and pragmatics. My work operationalises semiotic theory computationally, modelling how meaning is constructed, with applications in online harms, propaganda detection and content moderation.
2020–2026
An annual data cycle covering course collection, merging, subject recoding and validation across UK universities, redesigned as an agent-run workflow with staged execution and human confirmation gates. Core elements include the Model Context Protocol (MCP), tool function calling, task decomposition, multi-agent orchestration, LLM-as-judge evaluation and human-in-the-loop design.
Published at ICWSM 2026
A multimodal knowledge graph dataset for meme analysis, combining symbolic structure with learned representations. Released with a datasheet under CC-BY. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17826799
Team lead, BDA (University of Hull) · 2024
Assembled and led a five-person research team for the shared task, coordinating the technical approach — ensemble learning with external knowledge — and delivering the published system paper at ACL.
Community Award · 2024
A nine-month placement within the Turing's cross-disciplinary research community, with development funding.
S Squared Insights Limited · 2020–2026
Co-founded a data analytics consultancy serving over 40 higher-education institutions, with responsibility for the company's entire technical agenda: analytical methodology, infrastructure, data strategy and governance. Built and led the data science function, recruiting and mentoring a specialised technical team to deliver large-scale insight projects. Designed and shipped production systems including agentic AI pipelines, pattern-recognition tools and bespoke analytical products.
University of Manchester · 2019–2021
Lead for data science projects in the Market and Student Insight Team, and coordinator for the introduction of machine learning to the team's remit. Projects included predictive models for student attainment and matriculation, market analysis for new course development, and competitor analysis for student recruitment strategy. As Research Data Analyst, lead developer for business analytics products relating to research strategy, REF strategy and research impact.
Fairhome Group PLC · 2018–2019
Data-driven business intelligence and research briefs for external stakeholders. Lead for Geographical Information System rollout across the business, responsible for establishing GIS and building the internal GIS team.