Daniel Giles Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

London Area, United Kingdom

- Acting deputy group leader of the Sustainability and Machine Learning Group.- Oversee and manage ongoing research projects.- Collaborate with various international research groups. - Co-supervise PhD students within the Departments of Statistical Sciences and Computer Science.- Lead the “Tools, Systems and Practices” Met Office Academic Partnership (MOAP) working group.- Supervise BSc and MSc students.- Teach as a guest lecturer for MSc modules.

- Managed ARC's involvement in the UCL Centre of Digital Innovation (CDI). The UCL CDI is a collaborative initiative between UCL and AWS. Performed technical needs assessments and developed data processing pipelines for start-ups within the CDI Impact Accelerator programme. Worked with and supported the PhD funded researchers.- Led a project involving the optimisation of a cosmological code designed to run on peta-scale machines. The optimisation of the codebase involved implementing architecture aware mapping of distributed memory computations.- Managed assistant research software engineers.

- Developed an open source data assimilation software package which implements particle filtering techniques and has applications in atmospheric and tsunami modelling (Julia). - Collaborated with a UK Met Office partner to improve the representation of high resolution information within the Unified Model for climate predictions. - Partnered with AON (reinsurance) to develop real-time approaches for providing historical context to severe weather events. - Developed the numerical software on a project funded by AON (reinsurance) titled: “Production-level Cascadia tsunami hazard model incorporating far-field sources”. - Co-supervised a student's MSc project focusing on developing machine learning approaches to predict atmospheric indices from real observations.

- Liaised with scholars across six UK universities to develop an Academy which aims to provide technical training, learning and development, and career development for future careers in the Earth observation domain.- Analysed existing and future skill requirements for the four roles considered: data scientists, data engineers, research software engineers and data assimilation scientists.- Developed career frameworks for the roles considered within the Academy.

County Dublin, Ireland

Dissertation title: Development of fast computational methods for tsunami modelling. Awarded the best PhD thesis in Mechanics across the Schools of Engineering, Mathematics & Statistics and Physics.- Developed a nonlinear shallow water solver (Volna-OP2) optimised to utilise the latest HPC architectures. - Created novel automated techniques which predict local variability of tsunami impact using transfer functions and machine learning methods. - Coupled a fast tsunami solver with a statistical emulator to provide tsunami warnings with associated uncertainties. - Acted as the scientific investigator on a consultancy project funded by the Irish Office of Public Works. - Tutored numerous undergraduate mathematics modules across different schools: Science, Engineering, Computer Science and Business. - Co-supervised a BSc project focusing on developing machine learning techniques for capturing localised tsunami responses.- Co-founded and served as Vice-President of the SIAM-IMA Dublin Area Student Chapter.

- Provided mathematics help to undergraduate students across the whole university.- Received the Teaching Excellence Award from the UCD student body.

Psi, Villigen, Aargau, Switzerland

- Awarded a summer research scholarship.- Developed a computational fluid dynamics Python code to model fluid flows in nuclear reactors with an emphasis on implementing particle tracking techniques to track radionuclides.

County Limerick, Ireland

- Awarded a Science and Engineering summer research scholar fellowship.- Worked independently at developing a mathematical model for predicting influential spreaders in complex network, leading to a peer-reviewed publication. - Selected to participate in the Irish European Study with Industry to carry out mathematical consultancy with alumina refinery company Rusal Aughinish Alumina.

- Tutored 10+ secondary school students.

- Tested various web development packages. - Created a cross-platform web application for a Casino, using the AppGyver Composer and Sencha web development packages.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Computational And Applied Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Vice President of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Dublin Area Student Chapter..

Bachelor’S Degree, Theoretical And Mathematical Physics

Activities and Societies: Volunteer for the MathsSparks Initiative (Outreach program). Presented mathematical topics in a fun and engaging.

High School

Activities and Societies: Member of the Senior Soccer Team Vice-Captain of the School Secretary of the Academy Gold Medal in Mathematics.