Summarised CV

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Education

Ph.D in Interactive Artificial Intelligence, The University of Bristol, Finishing April 2024
MSc. in Data Science, The University of Edinburgh, 2019
BSc. in Computer Science, The Univeristy of Hull, 2018

Multiple PhD projects covering audio classification, self-supervision, and repetition counting
CDT Summer Project: ’The Blind Camera: Perception of Object Interaction Events from Audio Sensors’
- Supervisors: Dima Damen, Vangelis Kazakos
- I researched how to perform egocentric action recognition entirely from the audio stream, and applied state-of-the-art audio classification techniques to the ego-centric setting.
MSc Dissertation: ’Finding the Right Teacher for a Difficult Student’
- Supervisors: Amos Storkey, Elliot J. Crowley
- Investigated the use of Neural Architecture Search modelsfor network distillation, where a smaller student network approximates the learnt representation of a larger teacher network. Developed a novel approach to creating a teacher network for distillation using Fisher information to scale up a NAS model. I presented this work to some of the researchers in the Siri team at Apple.
BSc Dissertation: ’Data Mining Over Cancer Data with Decision Support Tool’
- Supervisors: Darryl Davis
- I researched the use of clinical decision support systems for cancer diagnosis, ultimately developing a decision support tool to assist in bowel cancer diagnosis.

Summer 2023 AI Research Engineer - Imagination Technologies
Summer 2022 Visiting Researcher - Columbia University
Summer 2018: Research Assistant
- STFC Hartree Centre
- Supervisor: Andrew Gargett
- I researched applications of transfer learning for deep end-to-end speech recognition systems for use in assisted living environments. I used transfer learning to train RNN’s to recognise regional UK dialects. This work was accepted as an abstract and presented at the Interspeech 2019 workshop on Pluricentric Languages for Speech Technology

“Cross-dialect speech processing”, Whettam D., Gargett A., and Dethlefs N. (2019), In Satellite Workshop at Interspeech 2019: Pluricentric Languages in Speech Technology

“Cross-dialect speech processing” at Satellite Workshop at Interspeech 2019: Pluricentric Languages in Speech Technology
“Finding the Right Teacher for a Difficult Student” , 2020, at Siri, Apple, Cheltenham
- Supplementary material: Slides

Teaching Assistant, The Univeristy of Bristol (2020-present)
- Applied Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Applied Data Science (Lead TA)
Laboratory Demonstrator, The Univeristy of Hull (2016-2018)
- Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Programming, Networking and User Interface Design, Programming 1