Hello! Welcome to my website.
On this page you can find links to my github, twitter, linkedin, and email.
I'm a student studying Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the University of Liverpool. Currently primarily interested in the crossover between electronics and the life sciences, particularly medical tech. Previous experience includes software development in a professional team, technical education, university electronics projects and home projects spanning hardware and software. Skilled in C++, Python, Javascript and Java, and have familiarity in other languages including Bash, Verilog, ARM Assembly and C.
In my free time I like running, hiking, climbing, programming (see github), making/breaking various electronics, and playing around with linux.
During the summer of 2022, I worked in the Structural Material and Mechanics Research Group at the University of Liverpool, developing a web based version of their THEON software. This taught me Javascript (A language I had never used prior!), and how to use the Vue framework to create a reactive, user friendly widget. THEON is used for reducing the dimensionality of data for processing, specifically for the use of validation of simulation models for aircraft parts. During my time working there I was in frequent contact with engineers at Dassault Systèmes, and gave multiple presentations to the Research group, Dassault and the National Physical Laboratory.
I spent some time working with LASER on the research they carried out at the start of the group, and more specifically around the idea of growing mushrooms on cubesats.
I spent a year working as a customer service representative at my local Waitrose & Partners branch which allowed me to really improve my interpersonal skills, and my ability to quickly build rapport with people I've not met before. While working there, I received two seperate positive reviews where I was mentioned by name as a reason the customer had an enjoyable shopping experience.
As a part of my Gold Duke of Edinburgh qualification, I ran a club for the Year 6 (age 10-11) students at a local junior school teaching basic HTML and python programming skills. This provided a great opportunity to practise communicating effectively about technical subjects in an easily understandable way, and I feel that I gained a lot of people management skills from the experience.
My course allows me to choose some modules, and I've taken a heavier lean towards the electronics side rather than computer science. In my first two years, projects included designing a car which travels to areas of darkness with a light on top to illuminate them, and a device which records atmospheric data to provide routefinding based on air quality rather than distance. These have also been supplemented by assignments which contained smaller projects, such as writing software engineering documents, writing SQL to manage a database for a shop, carrying out leader election and network communication algorithms in java, designing and building a multi-stage amplifier circuit, programming an FPGA in verilog, and many other smaller labs and assignments.
My final year project/dissertation is an imaging system which uses infrared light to image veins beneath the skin. As of September 2022, I haven't started yet but when it's done, this page will be updated with more details.
Outside of my academic life, I'm the President of the Liverpool University Mountaineering Club (LUMC) for the 2022/23 year, after being the Gear Secretary in 2021/22. I also spent some time with the University of Liverpool Association for Space Engineering & Research (LASER) in late 2021 and 2022, where I worked on the initial research for their Cubesat projects. I also took part in a workshop provided by the National Medtech Foundation which taught me a lot about the medical device market, and piqued an interest in medical technology, an area I had never considered beforehand. This also lead me to meet a medical student who provided the idea for my final year project!
Last updated on 12/09/2022