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PhD in Space and Climate Physics

Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London

• Fusion of LIDAR with stereo camera data - an assessment
• Supervised by Prof. Jan Peter Muller

Bachelors/Masters in Physics (MPhys)

University of Warwick

• First class honours

South Pole Telescope Winterover

University of Chicago (South Pole, Antarctica)

• Operate and maintain the South Pole Telescope, on-site support for Event Horizon Telescope observations, critical hardware/software support.

Postdoctoral Researcher in AI for remote sensing

ETH Zurich, Switzerland

• Joint with Restor Eco
• Developing machine learning algorithms for ecosystem conservation, based on remotely sensed data. Developed Restor's tree crown delineation pipeline.

IceCube Winterover Experiments Operator

Wisconsin-Madison University (South Pole, Antarctica)

• Operate and maintain the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, providing critical hardware and software support (on-call 24/7 year-round)

Postdoctoral Researcher in Drone Image Analysis

Liverpool John Moores University

• Led instrument design for a real-time, drone-mounted endangered species detection system using thermal/visible imaging and deep learning.
• Collaborations with Save The Elephants (Kenya), WWF, ZSL (London), Durrell (Madagascar) and Knowsley Safari.
• Development of an automatic spectral calibration pipeline for the 2m Liverpool Telescope

Researcher

Frontier Development Lab (Europe)

• Worked on a team developing a flood segmentation algorithm for deployment on a satellite, supported by UNICEF and the European Space Agency (ESA). Selected from over 400 applicants.
• Research presented orally at Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Response workshop at NeurIPS 2019 (hadr.ai).
• Launched code on a D-Orbit satellite in June 2021 and is has been flight-tested in space.

Computer Vision/Robotics Engineer

I3D Robotics ltd

• Designed bespoke 3D imaging systems; stereo, LIDAR, laser triangulation, high-speed image processing tools (> 400 fps).
• Led a successful InnovateUK-funded project for smart agriculture; an embedded system for deep learning-based fruit detection in greenhouses.
• Clients included robotics, heavy industry (steel), agriculture and nuclear.

STFC CASE PhD Student; Photonics Engineer

IS Instruments Ltd

• Led end-to-end design of a commercial IoT miniature spectrometer. Obtained UK government grant funding, PCB design and embedded firmware (Atmel AVR), optomechanical design and end-user software development.

• Antarctica Service Medal (Wintered Over), National Science Foundation (USA)

• Google Cloud Research Credit LJMU ($5k) to support research into RGB-Thermal data fusion for ecology

• Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society (RSPSOC) award for best PhD thesis

• SIM Scholar, Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers. Postgraduate award for excellence in instrumentation research, nominated by UCL.