Commencing in 2021, Dr Amanda J. Parker is a Research Fellow in the School of Computing at The Australian National University. Dr Parker develops machine learning and artificial intelligence methods for the challenges of domain specific scientific data. Her research group conducts develops guided sampling, active learning and green machine learning methods. For the preceding three years Dr Parker was a CSIRO Early Research Career Fellow in the Machine Learning Group at CSIRO's Data61 and graduated with a PhD in physics from The University of British Columbia in 2018 specialising in statistical physics, probability, soft matter, and computational science. In 2011 Dr Parker was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at IBM research Almaden and her prior studies were completed at Victoria University of Wellington.