- 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.
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
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Bristol Formula Student AI
Co-Founder & Technical Lead
2024 – 2025
Publications
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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 PDFEducation
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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.
ultrasound
tissue model
AI field
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University of Bristol
MEng Mechanical Engineering, with a Year in Industry
2020 – 2025
- 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.
ultrasound data
material model
validation
Experience
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Riven Industries Ltd
Mechanical Engineer
Sep – Oct 2025
- 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.
assembly
fabrication
direct air capture
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Rolls-Royce plc Engineering & Technology Intern 2022 – 2023
- 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.
manufacturing
sustainability
lifecycle analysis
Skills
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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.
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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.
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Design & manufacturing hands-on - Finite element analysis through to shop-floor fabrication: designing custom components and building them.
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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
Libraries & frameworks
- ROS 2
- PyTorch
- Scikit-Learn
Tools & platforms
- Git
- Docker
- Linux
- VirtualBox
References
Academic references available on request.