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United Kingdom

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

- Identified and drafted a wide range of improvements to the TypeDB database and TypeQL query language, implemented by engineering team.- Critically assessed query language design against type-theoretic principles and practical requirements to determine capability gaps.- Designed and implemented a graph-based data model and inference rules for drug repurposing in partnership with a major pharmaceutical firm.- Developed data models for internal research projects and enterprise… Show more - Identified and drafted a wide range of improvements to the TypeDB database and TypeQL query language, implemented by engineering team.- Critically assessed query language design against type-theoretic principles and practical requirements to determine capability gaps.- Designed and implemented a graph-based data model and inference rules for drug repurposing in partnership with a major pharmaceutical firm.- Developed data models for internal research projects and enterprise clients encompassing relational, document, graph, and type-theoretic databases.- Authored the TypeDB Jupyter project, a connector for Jupyter Notebook allowing commands to be executed against a TypeDB server. Show less

Guildford, England, United Kingdom

- Studied mechanics of changes to the crystal structure of stainless steels following irradiation with a focused ion beam, leading to novel discoveries.- Logged over 300 hours of electron microscope time conducting electron backscatter diffraction on stainless steels and silicon wafers.- Developed and maintained a bespoke codebase to analyse over 12 TB of electron diffraction data,- Implemented clustering algorithms, Monte Carlo modelling, image processing techniques, and matrix… Show more - Studied mechanics of changes to the crystal structure of stainless steels following irradiation with a focused ion beam, leading to novel discoveries.- Logged over 300 hours of electron microscope time conducting electron backscatter diffraction on stainless steels and silicon wafers.- Developed and maintained a bespoke codebase to analyse over 12 TB of electron diffraction data,- Implemented clustering algorithms, Monte Carlo modelling, image processing techniques, and matrix calculus, using both CPU and GPU for parallelisation.- Attained CMI Level 3 Award in Principles of Management and Leadership.- Thesis: “Studying Induced Crystal Structure Changes by Electron Backscatter Diffraction”. Show less

Guildford, England, United Kingdom

- Designed and executed experiments to assess the viability of novel single-crystal organic perovskite radiation detectors for applications in nuclear threat reduction.- Identified, de‐noised, and analysed signal pulses in time‐series detector outputs to generate statistics informing detector efficacy.- Gained expertise in radiation and semiconductor physics, and in emerging organic technologies in the detector and solar energy industries.- Dissertation: “Characterisation of… Show more - Designed and executed experiments to assess the viability of novel single-crystal organic perovskite radiation detectors for applications in nuclear threat reduction.- Identified, de‐noised, and analysed signal pulses in time‐series detector outputs to generate statistics informing detector efficacy.- Gained expertise in radiation and semiconductor physics, and in emerging organic technologies in the detector and solar energy industries.- Dissertation: “Characterisation of Single-Crystal Organometal Halide Perovskites for Radiation Detection”. Show less

Guildford, England, United Kingdom

- Worked to improve parking infrastructure automation in an agile full-stack development team at a local tech start-up.- Developed a data pipeline using intelligent filtering methods to analyse highly noisy number plate data and provide statistics via a REST API.- Engineered a complex relational database, then later migrated it to a document model.

Phd, Materials Engineering

Thesis: “Studying Induced Crystal Structure Changes by Electron Backscatter Diffraction”

Mphys, Physics, First Class

Dissertation: “Characterisation of Single-Crystal Organometal Halide Perovskites for Radiation Detection”