Grazziela Figueredo is a Senior Research Data Scientist in the Advanced Data Analysis Centre (ADAC) at The University of Nottingham. The focus of her research is the development and application of techniques for systems simulation and intelligent data analysis. She has been working with data analysis for a wide range of areas, including academic, medical and industrial clients. As part of ADAC, she specialised in providing consultancy within the University of Nottingham and externally, with the mission to enhance current research and business by providing state-of-the-art tools and the expertise to engineer and interpret data into useful information. She has been developing analytical solutions and prediction models for industrial partners such as Unilever, Ford, Games Workshop, Microlise, Housemark, PxTech, Licence Check and the UK Central Motorway Police Group.

Grazziela has carried out much research work in the area of systems simulation and data analytics in close collaboration also with industry. She can be seen therefore as one of the experts at the interface between big data and humans.