Who Am I?
I'm Pierce:
- 4th year Electronic and Information Engineering (Masters) student at ICL
- UTA for 2nd year Software Systems, and Compilers modules (again)
- President, and Academic Chair, of Imperial's Cybersecurity Society
What is this?
This is my personal website, the formal one, at least.
Currently it's partially a testament to my desire to learn how things work from the bottom-up, as well as a showcase of my ability to work with the low-level building blocks of, even, the web: if I haven't mentioned it enough yet, this is all written in pure HTML and CSS, no JS.
- Not the navbar
- Not the frozen header row nor linked content rows
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Not even the mobile compatibility:
- navbar hamburger menu
- rotating table (below), purely using CSS
What have I done?
This section will be a bit like the Education section of my LinkedIn, but in more detail, with relevant links to the projects I did during those times.
Broken links will be because the project hasn't yet been made public, I will slowly be addressing those. And not all selected modules will have projects associated, but I might do some projects relating to the content in my own time.
Imperial - Y4
| Spring Term | Distributed Optimisation and Learning | Mathematics behind distributed learning and optimisation algorithms | Ongoing |
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| Spring Term | Human-Centred Robotics | Group project: Design and build a robot that interacts with humans | Ongoing |
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| Autumn Term | Hardware and Software Verification | Formal verification of hardware and software programs/modules | Finished |
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| Autumn Term | Principles of Distributed Ledgers | Blockchain and Distributed Ledger technologies: Consensus, EVM, Smart Contracts, DeFi, Web3.0, etc. | Finished |
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| Autumn Term | Scheduling and Resource Allocation | Scheduling algorithms, and multi-agent Game Theory | Finished | |
| Autumn Term | Cryptography and Coding Theory | Modern Encryption and Error Correction Techniques | Finished | (in Julia) |
Imperial - Y3
| Spring Term | Network and Web Security | Vulnerabilities, exploits, and defences: Password Cracking, Network Mapping, Fingerprinting, Browser Vulnerabilities, RCE, SQLi, Scripting Attacks, etc. | |
| Spring Term | High-Level Programming | Functional programming intro, in F#; groupwork: implement new features in existing ISSIE codebase |
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| Spring Term | Embedded Systems | Group projects: Design and build an Embedded System, and write Synthesiser Drivers |
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| Spring Term | Computer Vision | Edge Detection, Feature Detection and Description, Image Classification and Segmentation, etc. | |
| Autumn Term | Advanced Computer Architecture | Out-of-Order Execution, Prediction, Sidechannels, SIMD, GPUs, Cache Coherency, etc.; courseworks: Architecture Optimisation, and literature review |
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| Autumn Term | Networked Systems | Design and control of modern network architectures and technologies: firewalls, SDNs, programmable switches, congestion control, etc. | |
| Autumn Term | Introduction to Machine Learning | Supervised vs Unsupervised Learning, k-means and GMM-EMs, Neural Networks, Evolutionary Algorithms, etc. | |
| Autumn Term | Designing Interventions for Behavioural Change | (I-Explore module) Analysis of behaviours, and techniques for designing effective interventions | |
| Autumn Term | Biomedical Electronics | Bio-potential/-chemical sensing, stimulation circuits, genetic technologies, neuroprosthetics: cochlear, retinal, BMIs |
Imperial - Y2
| Summer Term | Summer Project: Maze Roller | Two-wheeled, self-balancing, simultaneous localisation and maze-mapping, and cloud-enabled rover |
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| Spring Term | IAC - Compilers | Lexers, Parsers, ASTs, 3AC, and Compilers |
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| Spring Term | Control Systems | Stability, linearisation, non-linearity, open-/closed-loop systems and controllers | |
| Spring Term | Information Processing | Group project: design and build an FPGA-centric system, with an accelerometer, and DB-oriented cloud computing; interfaced custom components with a NIOS II processor | ... |
| Autumn Term | IAC - Instruction Architectures | Verilator and Testbenches, Memory, LFSRs, FSMs, RISC-V ISA, Pipelining, Cache, Virtual Memory; groupwork: design a RISC-V CPU and implement on FPGA |
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| Autumn Term | Software Systems | Relational Databases: Relational Algebra, Normal Forms, SQL; Networking: TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, P2P, etc. | |
| Autumn Term | Discrete Maths: Algorithms and Complexity | Complexity, Divide and Conquer, Dynamic Programming, Greedy Algorithms, Graphs, etc. | |
| Autumn Term | Mathematics for Engineers II | Complex Algebra, Contour Integration, Linear Algebra, Orthogonality, Statistics, Joint Distributions, Moments, etc. |
Imperial - Y1
First year modules tended to span multiple terms
| Summer Project: EEBug | Remote-controlled, moving, multi-sensor bug: IR, Ultrasonic, and Radio | |
| Digital Electronics and Computer Architecture | Karnaugh Maps, Gates, Comparators, ROMs, Flip-flops, SRAM, Counters, Registers, Overflow, Memory, Stacks, Subroutines, etc. | |
| Programming for Engineers | C++: Pointers, References, Classes, Inheritance, Polymorphism, etc. | |
| Analysis and Design of Circuits | Circuit laws, linearity and superposition, reactive components, frequency response, resonance, OpAmps, active filters, etc. |