Things I'm still quite proud of...

These were all completed during my time as an undergraduate at University, and may be useful or interesting to someone.

• Evolving strategies for prediction of sporting fixtures
  Mini-project on which the MSc thesis was based.
  
• Artificial creativity: automated Pavé jewellery design
  Masters project looking at methods and techniques for creating aesthetic jewellery designs automatically.
• Intelligent robotics  | Team report
  Design and creation of an intelligent autonomous robot which identifies and collects objects in an arena. With Mike Brook and Pete Zeidman.
• Visualisation of tropical cyclones
  Techniques and research used in the fields of computer visualisation for analysing hurricanes. With Mike Brook.

Smaller pieces of undergraduate / MSc university work

• Training a neural network
  Selecting the right parameters, learning rate mechanism, and other features of the network for a given data set.
• Research skills
  How to search online indexes to theses and papers, rather than simply relying on Google.
• Intelligent data analysis techniques
  Using Principal Component Analysis, Self-Organising Maps, and vector plotting to analyse a data set. With Richard Tyson, John Pappin, and Wayne.
• The future of mobile technology -- and the rise of GPS
  An essay pondering the future of pervasive mobile technology and the role of GPS in our society.
  
• Designed in two minutes?
  Group Human-Computer Interaction blog critiquing usability in the world around us. With Paul Dann, Francis Noumbi, Natalie Cryan, and Lucy.
  
• Visual impairment assistant
  Group Human-Computer Interaction project to design a digital assistance device for blind and partially-sighted users. With Dan Trimm and Jonathan Smith.
  
• Natural language processing system for a robot in a hazardous environment
• Finding optimal learning rate and momentum values for neural network training