Biography

I am currently a master’s student in High-Performance Graphics and Games Engineering at the University of Leeds. I have been interested in working on graphics engines since a young age after laying my hands on my first videogame!

After my master’s degree I will be looking for either PhD openings in computer graphics, or graduate jobs which will provide me with exciting challenges and opportunities.

In my spare time I enjoy martial arts, Japanese learning, and enjoying a variety of literature!

Interests

  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer vision
  • C++

Education

  • MSc High-Performance Graphics and Games Engineering, 2021

    University of Leeds

  • BEng Computer Science (with a year in industry), 2020

    University of York

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Lego Intern

DC Labs

Sep 2019 – Oct 2019 York, UK
Lead developer and researcher on a computer vision project to deconstruct physical Lego models for creative analysis
 
 
 
 
 

Software Engineer

IBM

Jul 2018 – Aug 2019 York, UK

Core development intern on IBM’s international team working on their TM1 offering. Responsibilities include:

  • Developing and maintaining feature in both modern and legacy C++
  • Complete rewrite of all build systems
  • Dev tool maintenance and creation

Accomplish­ments

Leeds Masters Fees Scholar

University of Leeds Sep 2020 – Aug 2021
Full Scholarship for my masters course. Scholarship was available to anyone with a Bachelor’s degree across all courses. Eight scholars chosen uni-wide.

Best performance in Final Year Project for BEng route

University of York Jul 2020
Awarded for achieving the highest grades in my final year project.

York Award Gold

University of York May 2020
Awarded to me for my various committee positions throughout the university and the work I completed on my placement year.

ACM SIGGRAPH Member

ACM SIGGRAPH May 2020
Member of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group.

York Award

University of York Sep 2018
Awarded to me for my extra-curricular work at York.

Recent Posts

Graduation Thanks

I thought I would make a post announcing good news, notifying you all of changes in my life, and finally, thanking you all for your support. Earlier in the holiday the University of York notified me that they would be graduating me with a First Class Honours (with distinction) in BEng Computer Science (with a year in industry).
Last updated on Sep 20, 2020 1 min read

Projects

A Small CMake Chocolate

I mentioned in a ray-casting post I did a bit ago that a fun future project would be to try and make a path tracer in CMake… yes, the build system generator…

Spring Mass System

In a previous post I mentioned Parent’s fantastic book, Computer Animation: Algorithms and Techniques. This is once again what I used to develop this project, and I don’t know that I could have done it so quickly without the book!

A Japanese Journey (With some webdev)

This project is a little different from the other projects on here so far. While I have always aspired to enter the video games industry, specifically in a graphics or engine role, I also have a love of Japanese traditional artwork, ukiyo-e (oo-ki-yo-eh).

Ray-casting

A Cornell Box with two mirrored spheres For this post I wanted to highlight my adventures into raytracing. There is nothing ground-breaking here, and it seems like a right of passage for all programmer (graphics and not) to create a ray-based rendering algorithm at some point or another.

Mocap IK Engine

At last, a post about a project! I made this last year after reading Parent’s Computer Animation: Algorithms and Techniques. I cannot recommend the book enough for someone looking to get a basic understanding of computer animation techniques.

Coming Soon

I have been doing various projects since mid-last year, however have not had the time to do a proper showcase/write-up on them yet. I should have some spare time from mid-May, so hopefully some of the projects will be released the following weeks.

Recent Publications

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Reconstructing Creative Lego Models

Lego is one of the most successful toys in the world. Being able to scan, analyse and reconstruct Lego models has many applications, …

Contact

  • Leeds, North Yorkshire