Alison Heppenstall is Professor of Geocomputation at the University of Leeds (UK) and an ESRC-Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute (London, UK). Heppenstall is currently developing approaches for the emerging field of urban analytics, including the detection of ‘hidden’ spatio-temporal patterns in ‘big data’, quantifying uncertainty in agent-based models and building more robust models of multi-agent systems through probabilistic programming and reinforcement learning. Her work has been funded by numerous funding agencies and the outputs have featured in national and international media outlets.