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3-month internship and year-long support afterwards, to develop a pilot site to help sixth form students find the right university. The platform filters information from the UK's Higher Education Statistics Agency and gives recommendations based on students' registered information and grades.
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3-month internship to develop a pilot site to help sixth form students find the right university. The platform filters information from the UK's Higher Education Statistics Agency and gives recommendations based on students' registered information and grades.
  
 
<i>Site: http://www.unientry.org</i>
 
<i>Site: http://www.unientry.org</i>

Revision as of 09:22, 5 January 2017

Education
University College London - MEng Computer Science, First Class Honours
2011 - 2015
Imperial College London - MBBS Medicine
2009 - 2011
  • Withdrew in second year to transition to computer science
Concord College, Shrewsbury - GCE A levels (Pre-A*) - AAAAab
2008 - 2009
  • Outstanding Student of the Year 2008 - Double award (Chemistry, Music) | Most imaginative hovercraft design
Professional experience
R&D Scientist - Digital:MR
May 2015 - August 2015

4-month feasibility study on sentiment analysis of images in social media, funded by a research grant from the UK government's technology strategy board. Using the Yfcc100m and YLI datasets comprised of 100 million images, labels, and metadata, I investigated both existing and novel methods to develop a commercially-viable product.

Research Intern - Microsoft Research Cambridge
May 2014 - August 2014

8-week research internship through the Bright Minds Intern Competition programme in the Machine Learning and Perception research group, working with Principal / Senior Researchers Pushmeet Kohli, Yoram Bachrach, Ulrich Paquet, and Filip Radlinski.

I worked on Project SmartFence - an application for web access control. Users block or allow the few sites they know and SmartFence infers the suitability for the rest of the web. We developed several different cluster/kernel-based models and visualization schemes, and I delivered a prototype for the OneWeek company-wide hackathon. A patent was applied for.

Founding Developer - Unientry.Ltd
June 2013 - 2014

3-month internship to develop a pilot site to help sixth form students find the right university. The platform filters information from the UK's Higher Education Statistics Agency and gives recommendations based on students' registered information and grades.

Site: http://www.unientry.org

JP Morgan Spring Week 2013 - European HQ - 25 Bank St. Canary Wharf
April 2013

Competition to implement a performant implied volatility calculator. Team awarded second-best for code review and performance, and best for presentation.

Extracurriculars
Self-directed research: Deep convnet models for equities pricing
June 2016 - present

The goal is to model the deterministic component of equities prices and relations between multiple time series, using layers of convolutional filter banks learned automatically through optimization. For simplicity, I used Microsoft's CNTK deep learning toolkit and QuantQuote's commercial tick-resolution historical dataset for all equities in the S&P500.

Study trip - Hokkaido Japanese Language School
August 2014 - September 2014

Self-funded intensive study trip with home stay in Sapporo to supplement my self study.

Competencies
C#
Java
Python
ASP.NET
MATLAB
HTML/CSS3
JavaScript
d3.js
MongoDB
SQL
MediaWiki
LaTeX
Sibelius
Academic interests
Applied machine learning
Artificial intelligence
Natural language processing
Spoken languages and personal interests
English
Mandarin
Malay
Japanese (conversational)
Piano
Programming
Reading