Vanya Arikutharam is a Machine Learning Engineer at OpenWeather since October 2024, with prior experience as a Student Researcher at Imperial College London, where a Generative AI model predicting health outcomes based on pollution was developed as part of a master's dissertation. Vanya also served as a Data Scientist at HOMA Health and co-founded Frizzle Weather, successfully deploying a high-accuracy weather forecasting algorithm and customizing AI solutions for enterprises. Additional roles include mentoring in computer vision projects, teaching data science concepts, and contributing to various internships and research initiatives in the field of machine learning and data science, complemented by a Master of Science in Environmental Data Science and Machine Learning from Imperial College London.