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
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
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.
X-Ray Physics : Threat Detection
2018-present
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!