Ciel Burges is a Clinical Trial Statistician in the Department of Biostatistics & Health Informatics at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. Ciel joined King’s College London in September 2024 as an Applied Statistical Modelling & Health Informatics MSc student. Their ongoing master’s project investigates a bias mitigation method to ensure fairness in machine learning models predicting antidepressant-treatment response.

Ciel holds a BSc in Psychology from the University of St Andrews, where they were awarded the British Psychological Society Prize for Top Graduating Psychology Student 2023/24 and focussed on LGBTQ+ mental health and social psychology.

They previously worked as Research Assistant at the School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St Andrews.

Research interests

• Randomised controlled trials (design, conduct and analysis)
• Multilevel and longitudinal modelling
• Fair machine learning for precision medicine
• Clinical prediction modelling
• Affective disorders