The Purpose of this Blog

This blog is a place for me to share fascinating insights on past and present breakthroughs in applied mathematics and probability theory. It is also a place for me to share the projects that I create; designed to illustrate the value (and I hope, the joy) of those breakthroughs and insights.

If a person comes away from this blog thinking, “wow, that is interesting, I never thought of it that way”, then it will have achieved what I dreamed for it to do.

A Brief Rundown of My Technical Achievements

In 2011, I received an MSci in Astronomy and Physics from UCL. My Masters thesis was on “Black Hole Thermodynamics and the Information Loss Paradox”, and my advisor was Prof. Ian Ford.

I then went on to obtain a PhD in the Physics of Astronomical Detectors from the Quantum Sensors Group at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. My PhD advisor was Prof. Stafford Withington, and my thesis was titled “Thermal Transport and Noise in Micro-Engineered Support Structures for Detector Applications”: an investigation in novel methods for the accurate simulation of heat transport, and for the utilisation of phase-coherent thermal waves to create low-dimensional “heat interferometers”. The application of this form of heat interferometry was proven empirically (for the first time) to reduce noise in superconducting detectors.

I graduated from Cambridge in 2016, and went on to co-found an augmented reality startup, called Sention, with my good friend Alexander Bridi. Whilst at Sention, I researched and developed novel solutions to a broad range of computer vision problems: from pixel-accurate background/foreground removal in natural scenes, to projection-invariant feature discovery, to blind real-time lens distortion correction (to state just a few). All research and algorithms from my time at Sention were proprietary.