Samantha Pearman-Kanza, Phd Email & Phone Number

Southampton, England, Gb

Southampton, Hampshire, Gb

I am a Pathfinder Lead and Researcher on the Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI) Initiative. My Pathfinder focuses on all aspects of process recording, and involves researching and developing different services for PSDI aimed to streamline this process for the physical sciences community. The current research focuses are: Process Recording, Data Conversion, Metadata, Semantic Web Tools & Ontologies, and Hybrid Tools for the Lab of the Future.

Southampton, Hampshire, Gb

I am a Senior Enterprise Research Fellow at the University of Southampton. I work on a number of different interdisciplinary research projects, including applying Semantic Web Technologies to Social Science datasets, projects relating to Electronic Lab Notebooks and Research Data Management, and a project called Talk2Lab which looks at using IoT devices in the laboratory environment. I also work as an Enterprise Fellow to coordinate the AI3 Science Network+ (AI3SD www.ai3sd.org). This involves undertaking research on behalf of the Network+, attending conferences to promote and disseminate information about our Network; running and organising all of our events, developing material for our training courses, managing our enterprise activities and links with other academics and industrial partners, and being in charge of our Website, Social Media accounts, and branding. I also lead an interdisciplinary Ethics of AI Working Group comprised of academics from multiple disciplines and universities.

Southampton, Hampshire, Gb

I am an Enterprise Research Fellow at the University of Southampton. I work on a number of different interdisciplinary research projects, including applying Semantic Web Technologies to Social Science datasets, projects relating to Electronic Lab Notebooks and Research Data Management, and a project called Talk2Lab which looks at using IoT devices in the laboratory environment. I also work as an Enterprise Fellow to coordinate the AI3 Science Network+ (AI3SD www.ai3sd.org). This involves undertaking research on behalf of the Network+, attending conferences to promote and disseminate information about our Network; running and organising all of our events, developing material for our training courses, managing our enterprise activities and links with other academics and industrial partners, and being in charge of our Website, Social Media accounts, and branding. I also lead an interdisciplinary Ethics of AI Working Group comprised of academics from multiple disciplines and universities.

Southampton, Hampshire, Gb

Working on the semantic web work packages of an agricultural research project (job title updated from Senior Research Assistant to Research Fellow upon award of PhD).

Southampton, Hampshire, Gb

I have demonstrated for 8 different modules (Undergrad and MSC. I have also been a Masters Mentor for a year, where I was responsible for 18 MSC students, both for their pastoral care and to run informative group sessions on topics such as academic integrity, correct referencing and poster presentations.I work as a Lab Demonstrator for Java and Web Design Labs, where I answer students questions and mark their work alongside them. I also regularly mark various courseworks, both programming and essays. I have also mentored Second Years in an Agile Software Engineering Group Project, and MSC Students in a Social Networking Project. This involved weekly meetings, answering questions and advising on their work, as well as helping to resolve any group issues that arose. These duties have retained and enhanced my technical skills and writing skills as well as giving me valuable experience in explaining different concepts, and imparting my knowledge to others.For more information go to: www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/sk11g08

Southampton, Hampshire, Gb

Working on the semantic web work packages of an agricultural research project

Southampton, Hampshire, Gb

My PhD Topic is investigating how to bring the modern power of the web to chemical research, with a specific focus on semantic electronic lab notebooks. As part of my research, I have conducted a market study, one quantitative user study (survey), and two qualitative user studies (focus groups and lab observations). I have also created a proof-of-concept web application for the semantic layer of an ELN. This is written in Java, and uses semantic services including Open Calais, OSC4R, Gate, ChemTagger and utilises several chemistry ontologies. I aim to complete my PhD by the end of 2017.

Reading, Berkshire, Gb

Alongside my role at the University of Southampton, I am also now co-coordinating the EPSRC Funded Future Blood Testing Network+ which is led out of the University of Reading.

Guildford, Surrey, Gb

Worked on two web projects. One involved java development of the backend of the website, working with large datasets and coordinating reading writing and storing data into these, in addition to performing complicated queries over them.The other involved working on the three.co.uk site, where I worked on both the front end (JSP's) and backend (Java) of the website. I both added new functionality to the site, and fixed existing bugs. I learnt the content management system fatwire, and how to create and edit JSP's as well as enhancing both my java and web skills. I worked with the client closely spending minimum one day a week on client site and this greatly boosted my client facing skills. I believe this job and the projects I worked on allowed me to greatly enhance my interpersonal skills, in addition to learning to problem solve under pressure and the ability to manage my own work directly with the client.

London, Other..., Gb

Worked on two Ruby on Rails Projects in Rails 2 & Rails 3.Used Agile, Scrum, Pair Programming & Test Driven Development.Wrote CSS & Javascript.Set up CMS for the admin side of a website.Pair programming database task: Query an external API via XML Request to retrieve approx 100,000 records, parse the XML to strip & convert the data and write database transactions to add them.I believe I gained valuable teamwork skills throughout this placement both due to pair programming and regular planning meetings with and without the customer.

Slough, Berkshire, Gb

Worked on a number of projects mostly in VB.NET.Gained extensive experience in JavaScript (JQuery) using it both with AJAX to dynamically update/submit data on the page and animation techniques such as a countdown timer.Worked with external JQuery Libraries such as flot to create dynamic graphs.Wrote complex SQL Queries based on varying sets of data and timeframes.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Web Science

Master Of Science (Msc), Web Science

Meng, Computer Science

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