CV

Consulting member of technical staff

Oracle Labs

Technical lead on the Sandwood probabilistic programming project

• Responsible for the design of Sandwood and setting the direction of the project
• Lead a team of junior researchers
• Built PoCs with teams across Oracle to take advantage of Sandwood

Principal member of technical staff

Oracle Labs

Technical lead on the Sandwood probabilistic programming project and the Pandia NUMA software performance prediction project

• Responsible for the design and direction of the Sandwood and Pandia projects
• Lead a team of junior researchers
• Built PoCs with teams across Oracle to take advantage of Sandwood
• Built Pandia as a component of the rack scale computing project

Research Associate

Advanced Processor Technology group, University of Manchester

Worked on the Teraflux project

• Architected and built DFScala, a dataflow library for Scala
• Architected and built MUTS, a Scala software transactional memory library
• Architected and built Nesoi, a tool to statically check the memory usage of MUTS and DFScala to prevent unprotected shared memory modifications
• Lectured and ran practicals for the computer architecture course

Senior Researcher

Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe

Research Associate

Oxford eResearch Centre, University of Oxford

Worked on exploring new technologies and applying them to real world problems faced by domain scientists

• Developed tooling and abstractions to assist in programming in multi-core and GPGPU programming environments
• Developed PoCs for GPGPU based software for projects ranging from medical imagery, to models of the visual cortex, to real-time processing of radio telescope data to detect pulsars

Software Engineer

Google

Summer internship developing monitoring software for the Google Checkout project

Tutor

Merton College, University of Oxford

Taught object oriented programming

Demonstrator

Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford

Worked as a demonstrator on a wide range of CS courses

DPhil (PhD)

University of Oxford

Computer Science

• A service-oriented architecture and language for abstracted distributed algorithms

BA Hons 1st class

University of Oxford

Computer Science

• Awarded Hoare prize for top 1st in Computer Science in 2004
• Awarded Exhibition Scholarship for exceptional academic achievement

Awarded Hoare prize

Prize for the highest overall grade in Computer Science that year

Shortlisted for a Royal Society university research fellowship

Awarded best paper at MULTIPROG

Awarded junior research fellowship at Pembroke College, University of Oxford

Shortlisted for AXA research funding by the University of Oxford

1 of from 3 from the University of Oxford

Nominated for best student paper WWW2007

14% acceptance rate.

Awarded student paper at UK eScience all hands meeting

Awarded exhibition scholarship

Awarded by Worcester College, University of Oxford for exceptional academic achievement

Awarded 2 half blues for varsity gliding