Projects and Research

Throughout my career, I have had the opportunity to gain experience in a wide variety of roles across different industries. I am extremely passionate about all of the projects I have worked on, and my hope is that this passion really shines throughout all of my work. Take a look at some of my past projects below.

MPhys : Higgs Boson

2012-2013

My masters thesis was on the subject of the Higgs boson; hot news at the time due to its recent experimental discovery. I worked on some heavyweight simulation codes which create the events seen at the LHC; my work took these results to a new level of accuracy and some plots ended up in the QCD handbook.

PhD : Dark Matter, no Place for WIMPS

2013-2017

My research focussed on the mysterious origins of dark matter; a huge gravitational substance which has existed throughout the universe since the big bang. The most sensible identity is that dark matter is simply a new particle; I was able to show that if it is the case then the simplest scenarios (so called "WIMP" dark matter") are ruled out by data coming from the LHC, from cosmology and from measurements of galaxies.

My Thesis

My Papers

Explosive Detection in Baggage Scanners

2018-2020

I work in the area of x-ray applications in aviation security. I develop various aspects of these projects :

Detector design for spectral CZT detectors.
Machine learning algorithm for threat detection.
AI : Convolutional Neural Networks

See the image on the left made using AI to detect those threatening zips! I can't show explosive/bomb detection for obvious reasons.

The Fight Against Osteoporosis

2020-2022

I joined Ibex Innovation; a Durham University startup; with a mission to create an osteoporosis diagnostics tool from 2D x-rays. I built the AI team for Ibex and developed many algorithms

Deep learning stack for segmentation of tissues; precise region-finding (see white boxes to the right)
Clinical Trial design, running and analysis (OFFER1), published here
Development of XIST (X-Ray Imaging Simulation Toolkit), synthetic data. Subsequently sold to Curvebeam AI
Development of DRR (Digitally Reconstructed Radiograph), subsequently licensed to Curvebeam AI

Data Quality at the Home Office

2022-2023

A short term contract as Lead Data Scientist at the UK Home Office; I worked with the Immigration and Borders data platform as part of the data assurance team

Working with AWS distributed computing; I built and ran infrastructure to aggregate the 6-billion document graph database underpinning the whole immigration apparatus of the UK
The aggregated data was used to surface data quality issues and trace and address data issues.
Building dashboards to communicate data quality issues to stakeholders

The Frontier of Orthopaedics

2023-present

My scientific career culminated in taking a role as chief scientist for Curvebeam, a disruptive CBCT company bringing innovations into orthopaedics

Developing cutting edge solutions including segmentation, landmarking. Using shape modelling to automate surgical metrics
Revolutionising the imaging function; introducing calibration methodologies
Developing software to tune image quality for surgical applications
Working with world leading surgeons to optimise their scanners