
Rosie Wood
Research Software Engineer · Alan Turing Institute
I am a Research Software Engineer and member of the Research Engineering Group (REG) and Research Computing team at the Alan Turing Institute. I specialise in deploying software and models on GPU/HPC systems, developing open-source reproducible research software and applying computer vision and LLMs to real-world research problems.
Projects
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MapReader
2023–present
Award-winning computer vision pipeline for large-scale analysis of historical maps.
t0-1
2025–2026
A RAG system which uses small language models fine-tuned for reasoning to answer domain specific queries (focused on NHS A-Z conditions).
Eden
2026–present
A RAG system which uses small reasoning models to answer domain-specific queries about gardening (focused on RHS data).
multi_node_inference
2025
A series of scripts for running multi-node inference with LLMs across multiple nodes on HPC using vLLM (including containerised workflows).
reginald
2024
A slack bot/chat interface which uses open source LLMs and RAG to answer queries about Turing internal data.
Talks & Presentations
- “Porting Microsoft’s Aurora to Dawn” [CoSeC/CIUK 2025, Manchester]. 12/2025
- Isambard-AI Workshop [The Alan Turing Institute, London]. 03/2026
- Intro to HPC Workshop [The Alan Turing Institute, London]. 11/2025
- MapReader Autumn Data/Culture Workshop [The Alan Turing Institute, London]. 10/2024
- MapReader Workshop [Spatial Humanities 2024, Bamberg, Germany]. 09/2024
- MapReader Summer Data/Culture Workshop [Lancaster University]. 06/2024
- MapReader Spring Data/Culture Workshop [The Alan Turing Institute, London]. 04/2024
- MapReader Public Launch Event [The Alan Turing Institute, London]. 06/2023
- Maps as Data Workshop [BMA House, London]. 03/2023
Recognition
- Featured in SC25 HPC Ignites ‘Women in HPC’ series. 03/2025
- MapReader awarded the 2023 Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History. 12/2023
Publications
Unravelling 2,4-D – biochar interactions by molecular dynamics: adsorption modes and surface functionalities
Biomass and Bioenergy · 2026
MapReader: Open software for the visual analysis of maps
Journal of Open Source Software · 2024
Reading Maps at a Distance: Texts on Maps as New Historical Data
Imago Mundi · 2024
Developing a molecular-level understanding of biochar materials using public characterization data
Cell Reports Physical Science · 2024
Developing realistic molecular models of biochars
Cell Reports Physical Science · 2024
MapReader
Zenodo · 2023