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8-week research internship through the Bright Minds Intern Competition programme for undergraduates.

I worked on Project SmartFence - an application of machine learning on Bing data for personalized web access control. Users block and allow the sites they know and SmartFence infers the suitability of the rest of the web. Delivered a concept prototype for the OneWeek company-wide hackathon. Currently working on first-name publication.

Delivered a pilot site for sixth form students and their teachers/mentors to find the right university for them. The platform publishes and filters information from the Higher Education Statistics Agency and gives recommendations based on students' perceived ability from their registered information and grades.

Research on methods to derive data on what users want to know most when querying something belonging to a certain "class", using search engine logs and the semantic web. For instance, the search "hotels in Hawaii" would map the string "hotels in" to the class <place>. We can then query these hierarchical classes to find tasks users commonly associate with them. Awarded best research work / presentation amongst our year.

An experiment in music synthesis and representation using HTML5-based technologies and an exercise in UI design.

I intended to turn it into a JavaScript application to let people synthesize music quickly with little to no musical knowledge required - and then transform their creation into a personalized rhythm game. Progress is currently halted due to UI scaling performance issues.

To develop a home automation platform capable of controlling devices locally, as well as remote surveillance. Platform is capable of controlling Arduino, Gadgeteer, and Wiimo (Belkin) devices, and has limited voice recognition functions. Remote component is hosted on Azure, local server is a Raspberry Pi running ArchLinux, which our Flask-based Python backend runs on.

To implement a performant volatility calculator for a stream of options prices (to estimate the inverse of the Black-Scholes algorithm). Implementation was in Java, core algorithm is a simple Newton-Raphson iterator. Team awarded second best for code performance and code review, and best for presentation.

Code jam to develop a clip art application to raise awareness about nature in cities. Final application uses HTML5 canvas (Kinetic.js) with a PHP backend for uploads.

To program a maze-solving robot in C. Final algorithm is based on a wall-follower. Team placed 10th out of 30.

To develop an Android app for the Restless Beings charity to conduct field studies on children in poorly-developed countries.

Wiki administrator / bureaucrat for kirby.wikia.com. My technical responsibilities include maintaining and implementing the custom theme, which I have overhauled from Wikia's default over several months, the templates in use, and the custom AJAX script + template wrapper used to pull soundtrack playlists off Youtube, to display them alongside documentation within a custom player.

Community management involves page patrols, user rights and site policy management, handling new anouncements from Nintendo, and liasing with Wikia regarding updates and MediaWiki plugins.

Current institution of study.

Withdrew during second year to transition to computer science. No credits transferable.

AAAAab (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, AS English literature, AS Music)

• Outstanding Chemistry Student of the Year 2008
• Outstanding Music Student of the Year 2008
• Hovercraft, solar buggy races participant