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About Me

Mechanical engineer turned researcher, working where physics meets data. I am currently at Imperial College London using AI-enhanced numerical modelling to describe the mechanical behaviour of skin, for early cancer detection and wound healing. Before that I co-founded Bristol’s Formula Student AI team and took it to international competition in its first year, and spent a year at Rolls-Royce building a group-wide manufacturing sustainability capability. I love tech.

Projects

  1. Bristol Formula Student AI Co-Founder & Technical Lead 2024 – 2025

    Bristol, UK

    • Co-founded and led the team to compete at the international Formula Student AI 2025 competition, placing 16th of 26 teams in our first year.
    • Built the team from the ground up and acted as technical lead for autonomous system architecture, planning and control, and hardware integration in ROS 2 Galactic.
    • Oversaw all team operations: administration, DevOps, finance, marketing, recruitment and strategy.
    Bristol Formula Student AI Autonomous racing at the University of Bristol fsai.cssbristol.co.uk ↗

Publications

  1. The influence of volume fraction on the compressive behaviour of a polymeric syntactic foam: From manufacturing to machine learning-based modelling Materials Today Communications · Volume 50 · Article 114339 2026
    • Edward Ferguson, Felipe Oggioni, Daniel Peppe, Sam Whiteside, Henry Fieldsend and Burcu Tasdemir.

Resumé

Resumé PDF

Education

  1. Imperial College London PhD Student 2025 – present
    • Using AI-enhanced numerical modelling to model the mechanical behaviour of skin, for early cancer detection and wound healing applications.
    Temporary editorial artwork showing ultrasound passing through layered tissue ultrasound
    A closer crop of the temporary ultrasound and tissue artwork tissue model
    The data-field side of the temporary ultrasound artwork AI field
  2. University of Bristol MEng Mechanical Engineering, with a Year in Industry 2020 – 2025

    Bristol, UK · First Class Honours

    • Specialisations: data-driven physical modelling, multivariable and non-linear control, ultrasound, finite element analysis, sustainability.
    • Bachelor’s dissertation: developed a novel technique for generating ultrasonic testing datasets to train machine learning models to predict porosity in composite materials.
    • Master’s dissertation: modelled the compressive behaviour of syntactic foam using machine learning (RF, SVR, GPR, ANN), with robust validation and extensive evaluation.
    Temporary editorial artwork showing ultrasound passing through layered tissue ultrasound data
    A closer crop of the temporary ultrasound and tissue artwork material model
    The data-field side of the temporary ultrasound artwork validation

Experience

  1. Riven Industries Ltd Mechanical Engineer Sep – Oct 2025

    London, UK

    • Contributed to the Direct Air Capture team, responsible for assembly of the carbonation module.
    • Hands-on shop-floor experience with power tools for sheet-metal modification and assembly.
    • Designed and manufactured custom components as part of the final system.
    Temporary editorial artwork showing ultrasound passing through layered tissue assembly
    A closer crop of the temporary ultrasound and tissue artwork fabrication
    The data-field side of the temporary ultrasound artwork direct air capture
  2. Rolls-Royce plc Engineering & Technology Intern 2022 – 2023

    Derby, UK · Central Manufacturing

    • Developed a commercialisation strategy and IP framework for a novel manufacturing technology, coordinating technical, non-technical and external teams.
    • Developed a group-wide manufacturing sustainability capability, conducted Lifecycle Assessment (LCA) studies and presented findings to global communities.
    Temporary editorial artwork showing ultrasound passing through layered tissue manufacturing
    A closer crop of the temporary ultrasound and tissue artwork sustainability
    The data-field side of the temporary ultrasound artwork lifecycle analysis

Skills

  1. Data-driven physical modelling primary
    • Surrogate and hybrid models over FEA and experimental data; ultrasonic dataset generation; RF, SVR, GPR and neural approaches with validation that holds up.
  2. Robotics & autonomy ROS 2
    • Autonomous system architecture, planning and control, and hardware integration — taken from nothing to a car that drove itself round a competition track.
  3. Design & manufacturing hands-on
    • Finite element analysis through to shop-floor fabrication: designing custom components and building them.
  4. Leadership & project management team of many
    • Founding and running a technical team: recruitment, finance, DevOps, marketing and strategy, alongside the engineering.

Programming

Languages

  • Python
  • MATLAB
  • C
  • C++
  • Bash
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript

Solid outline = proficient · hairline = experienced · plain = familiar

Libraries & frameworks

  • ROS 2
  • PyTorch
  • Scikit-Learn

Tools & platforms

  • Git
  • Docker
  • Linux
  • VirtualBox

References

Academic references available on request.