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22/04/2024
A recording of my CSS research seminar is online: link.
10/04/2024
I visited the Centre for Systems Studies this afternoon. I gave a research seminar talk about how mathematical modelling, scientific computing, and machine learning could be used together. Throughout my presentation, I connected these tools to topics relevant to the business school.
My slides: link.
23/02/2024
I overcame my illness to deliver my lecture on microaggressions this afternoon.
My slides: link.
14/02/2024
I am now a Fellow of Higher Education Academy. My application was reviewed by an independent peer review panel. This fellowship professionally recognises individuals from a wide variety of different contexts whose practice with learners has `breadth and depth', enabling them to evidence all 15 Professional Standards Framework (PSF) 2023 Dimensions.
31/01/2024
I am still grading resits. I am looking forward to having some time for research after this week.
Congratulations to Enoch Appiah, my supervisee who was awarded the Best MSc Research Project Prize.
HUSU's Yoga Society is back. I am one of the instructors. Next week, I will teach the first part of my Foundations of Vinyasa Yoga Series.
23/01/2024
This afternoon, I met my first PhD candidate, Francesca Covell. Dr Matishalin Patel is her secondary supervisor. It means that three Imperial alumni are researching evolutionary therapy for high-risk neuroblastoma in Hull. Welcome aboard!
10/12/2023
I have joined Imperial's Activate Student Mentoring Programme as a mentor.
04/12/2023
I just completed a Udacity course titled Introduction to Computer Vision. My certificate: link.
16/11/2023
Yesterday, I taught my first group yoga class, organised by Hull University Students' Union as a part of their Give it a Go programme.
07/11/2023
This morning, I discussed AI safety with Carla Greene on BBC Radio Humberside. A recording of it is available online for 29 days: link. My part begins at around 01:20:25.
28/10/2023
I just completed a Udacity course titled Building Generative Adversarial Networks. My certificate: link.
22/10/2023
15 years after my first yoga class, I qualified as a yoga teacher today. Ann-Marie Mainprize and my peers made a challenging course an enjoyable journey. I learnt so much from the best yoga teacher trainer and a supportive group of yogis.
12/09/2023
I am looking for a PhD student. The successful candidate will work with me and Dr Matishalin Patel to develop a theory about multidrug adaptive therapy. Dr Sabine Taschner-Mandl (CCRI, Austria) will be our experimental collaborator. The tuition waiver will cover the full international fee. The application deadline is on 02/10/2023. More information here: link.
11/08/2023
Our paper about the cloud-based high-performance platform built by the PRIMAGE consortium is now online (link). It contains a multi-scale model of neuroblastoma spanning nine orders of magnitude in space and time.
03/08/2023
I just completed DeepLearning.AI's Natural Language Processing Specialisation. What an exciting field! My certificate: link.
18/07/2023
I want to congratulate Gulraiz Khan on passing his six-month review. His PhD project aims to turn 2D images into 3D avatars. I am his secondary supervisor.
11/07/2023
This afternoon, I was on the AI for Good panel of the Sustainable Development Goals Conference. I spoke about the role of AI in mitigating and exacerbating linguistic oppression and fielded questions from the audience.
My slides: link.
09/07/2023
This year's Sustainable Development Goals Conference is on Tuesday. I will be on the AI for Good panel: link.
26/06/2023
After another fulfilling yoga teacher training weekend, I am now halfway through the course. Soon, I will be available if anyone wants to arrange a class with me.
07/06/2023
I gave my first talk on linguistic justice today. I will keep speaking up and speaking out against linguistic oppression until we can communicate on an equal footing.
My slides: link.
03/06/2023
Humber Business Week begins on Monday. There will be a series of events to showcase the wealth of talent, entrepreneurship, vision, and future potential of our region.
The Hull University Business School's next Business Briefing session will be a part of it. The title is 'The Future of Business: Responsible Leadership in a Complex World'. It will cover the themes of talent/labour shortage, upskilling, sustainability, cost of business, wellbeing, agile working, and digital disruption.
I will give a presentation about the use of English as a global language at 16:30. I will go there straight after the Applied AI lab session.
Edit on 13/06/2023: I found another image.
30/05/2023
My applied AI course begins tomorrow. I am looking forward to the exciting trimester.
09/05/2023
Tomorrow, I am going to have water balloons thrown at me to raise money for Malala Fund, which advocates education for girls.
14/04/2023
Our preprint about the PRIMAGE multiscale orchestrated computational framework is now online: link.
26/03/2023
Our paper about optimising the induction stage of high-risk neuroblastoma treatment by exploiting evolutionary principles is now online: link.
Genetic algorithms are versatile and accessible. Almost every optimisation problem can be solved by this method. It is easy to learn too. The one Matteo and I coded is available on my GitHub profile page.
23/03/2023
Today, I gave my first lecture at the University of Hull. I talked about my neuroblastoma research in the module called Research and Application in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. It was nice meeting the students, some of whom will carry out dissertation research under my supervision in the summer.
My slides: link.
20/02/2023
17 fully funded PhD studentships are available in my department. The fee waiver will cover the full international fee, so international applicants are welcome. Here are the details: link.
10/02/2023
I met my very first personal tutees today. A memorable moment.
16/01/2023
Today, I started my lectureship (assistant professorship) at the University of Hull: my first independent academic position. I am a part of the Centre of Excellence for Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Modelling.
Now that I hold a position that makes me a potential role model for young people, I will pay more attention to my behaviour. Partly due to autism, I have experienced meltdowns triggered by overwhelming situations, especially flashbacks of injustices. During these episodes, I might have lost behavioural control. I certainly have done and said things that I regret, such as name-calling and swearing. Of course, my being autistic is not an excuse for my past acts and words, but now that I know better and have the necessary coping mechanisms, I can manage an overwhelming situation more effectively. Starting from today, I will think twice before communicating my thoughts.
13/01/2023
Yesterday, I had my last day at the University of Sheffield. In the last four years, I had a great time doing cutting-edge research within a European project and supervising various exploratory projects. I am grateful to Dr Dawn Walker for this opportunity.
03/01/2023
I now volunteer as a mentor for Imperial College Careers Service's Alumni Mentoring Scheme. It aims to support the development of student employability through gaining an informed career insight and empowering students to achieve their career aims. It also seeks to advance diversity and inclusion by encouraging the networking propensity of students from underrepresented groups.
Students and mentors work together across the academic year with a minimum of five points of engagement.
I specialise in mentoring students interested in the quantitative life sciences, BAME students, international students, first-generation immigrants, victims of linguistic oppression, and neurodivergents. In this cycle, I am working with three undergraduate students.
07/10/2022
During this year's National Postdoc Appreciation Week, my colleagues nominated me to be recognised as an outstanding postdoc for my mentoring of thesis students and interns, as well as my EDI work. You can read my nomination here: link.
Edit on 12/11/2022: My nomination was approved by the Researcher Development Team of the University of Sheffield.
Edit on 31/12/2022: My nomination is on the right. The left panel shows a separate recognition award from Professor Brown, my head of department.
01/10/2022
This week, I stepped down as the research representative on my department's EDI committee and the department's cultural competence representative. Although the experience taught me a lot, I could have achieved more had I received more support from the department to promote linguistic justice.
09/09/2022
I spent the week in Porto, where I attended the VPH2022 conference. I gave a talk about my PRIMAGE-related research myself (link) and Matteo Italia presented our collaborative work on optimising chemotherapy for neuroblastoma. Between now and the end of the year, my focus will be on writing two manuscripts regarding these two subjects.
16/06/2022
Our abstract about the PRIMAGE project has been accepted for an oral presentation at the Virtual Physiological Human Conference, which will take place in September in Porto, Portugal. I look forward to giving the talk.
Our abstract about neuroblastoma's clonal evolution has also been accepted for an oral presentation at the same conference and for a poster presentation at the 12th European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, which will take place in September in Heidelberg, Germany. Matteo Italia will present on our behalf.
14/06/2022
Alvaro Andre Yupanqui Rivera, an undergraduate bioengineer, has been offered the Insigneo summer internship. We will spend the summer modelling the intracellular mechanisms of asymmetric division in neural crest progenitor cells.
06/06/2022
My colleagues from the University of Bologna, Barbara and Marco, developed a new approach to scale separation in the early phase of the PRIMAGE project. I am proud to have contributed a little to this study. Read more about it in our new paper: link.
Edit: Elsevier has kindly authorised 50 days' free access to the article (link).
10/05/2022
I am pleased to announce that Luke Jones, an undergraduate student in our department, and I managed to secure a bursary from the Sheffield Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) scheme. This summer, we will build on Will Shaw's work from last year by building a biological lattice-gas cellular automaton of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, arguably the worst type of cancer.
28/03/2022
Today, I was awarded another grant for the Insigneo Summer Research Programme. It will fund a student to study the mechanisms regulating asymmetric cell division in neuroblastoma cells. Are you an undergraduate student at the University of Sheffield? Are you interested in graph theory, Boolean networks, and cancer biology? If yes, please write to me.
07/03/2022
Today, I gave a talk at Tapton School. Using my ongoing work in the PRIMAGE project as an example, I tried to impress on the sixth-formers the relevance of quantitative methods to the life sciences. Here are the slides: link.
27/02/2022
I finished the Doncaster Chess Congress 2022 with a result of 2.5/5. I had a few opportunities to achieve my highest score in a tournament as yet, but I failed to capitalise on those promising positions.
04/02/2022
A calmer one: link.
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A Strange Attractor, acrylic on canvas, 2022.
31/01/2022
I had an interesting evening. It started with an attempt to combine two very different forms of abstraction. When it became clear that I could not make unconstrained expression and Cubist rigidity work together on my canvas, I let my intuition salvage the mess and finished with this improvised piece. The title is a tribute to Jenny Holzer. Link.
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2022 is Stupid, acrylic on canvas, 2022.
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Here are my earlier announcements: link.