Jessica’s research journey began in astro-particle physics doing fieldwork on a neutrino-detector project at South Pole Station. She completed a Masters and PhD in applied mathematics and geophysics at the University of Washington, studying ice physics and climatology, i.e. applied machine learning. After a postdoc in Japan she joined two later-acquired start-ups. She began at Microsoft by way of VoloMetrix, an enterprise productivity company acquired by O365, and is currently compelled to address the technology-undeserved field of medicine, working in the health and IoT domain in Microsoft Research.