Cecelia W. Email & Phone Number

Cecelia W. is a Software Engineer at Ripjar. Colleagues describe her as "Cecelia worked for me during her year-in-industry attachment to Rolls-Royce. She undertook all the tasks assigned to her with great enthusiasm, energy and focus. She did not give up easily when faced with challenges and have achieved all the objectives set. She's intelligent, hard-working, a team-player and a joy to work with. During her time in Rolls-Royce, she has acquired the know-how of and became quite knowledgeable in Machine Learning techniques and Intel SGX (an Intel architecture extension designed to protect data/applications) technology. Her contributions to our HPC capability has been significant. I whole heartedly recommend Cecelia for any future undertaking." and "Cecelia worked in my Computational Sciences Group at Rolls-Royce for her Year in Industry placement in 2017/18. She impressed us all with her willingness to engage with the team and to learn and contribute to new topics. Two pieces of work stand out. The first was around security of data at rest on untrusted systems. The problem was how to process data on the system without exposing any of the data as plain text. Cecelia worked closely with Intel and other experts as part of a working party investigating secure key stores. She proved herself very adept at learning new cryptographic skills and working across two large organisations. She successfully prototyped a working key store and was part of the team that won an Engineering Innovation award for this work. The second piece of work involved machine learning where, again, she proved herself very proficient at learning and applying new skills. By the time she finished her year with us, she had become a fully-fledged and liked member of the team and able to engage in technical discussions with experts in the field. She has a quiet determination to get work done and was undaunted by the technical challenges we gave her. She has the makings of a great computer scientist."