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Rust is a systems programming language that is fast and memory safe. Rust has become increasingly popular over the last few years, and is now used by companies such as Dropbox, Discord, and Cloudflare. Rust is known for its strong type system and lack of garbage collection, which makes it a great choice for high performance applications that need to be secure. The White House has recommended that all programmers move to memory-safe programming languages for safety reasons, and given that Rust is memory safe, it is a great choice for this.

I have been writing Rust commerically for a while now, having come from a background of Python. It has been a fun journey so far and I am excited to share what I have learned with you. I am currently using Rust to build the high performance, medical simulation software: Clinical Metrics. The entire backend has been rewritten from Python to Rust and the performance improvements have been significant. You can see the promo video for Clinical Metrics here.

I am also using Rust in my PhD to create a way of generating realistic synthetic data for electronic health research. This is a very exciting project and I am looking forward to sharing more about it in the future. Check out my PhD page for more information. I am using SurrealDB, a Rust based database, as the backend for this project, and they are kindly sponsoring my research.

I am co-lead of Women in Rust, a community group that aims to support and encourage women to learn and use Rust. Currently around 3% of Rust developers are women, and we are working to increase this number. We have a monthly meetup and a LinkedIn group, and we are always looking for new members. If you are interested in joining, please join the meetup group for event notifications and the LinkedIn group to connect with other members.

Clinical Metrics

Clinical Metrics

A medical simulation tool for training doctors in the UK

DIVINA

DIVINA

A medical simulation tool for training medical students in Germany

Finding Similarity with Vector Search: A Beginner's Guide

This blog comes out of an interactive workshop I gave using SurrealDB. It’s a beginner’s guide to vector search, a modern way to find matches based on multiple preferences at once.

Macrodash

Macrodash

A dashboard tool for clients and personal trainers to track and monitor their clients’ progress with nutrition and fitness goals

A PhD in generating synthetic health data

This is an introduction to my PhD project and what I am hoping to achieve with it, which is to develop methods for generating realistic synthetic health data. This project is generously sponsored by SurrealDB, a multi-model database entirely written in Rust. I am using SurrealDB for a number of reasons, including its ability to do complex queries, vector searching and embedding functions that are useful for generating synthetic data.

Halfloop

Halfloop

A post-market surveillance tool for medical devices