Who Am I?
I'm Pierce:
- New grad, studied Electronic and Information Engineering (MEng) at ICL
- UTA for 2nd year Software Systems, and Compilers module (again)
I was:
- An intern at CKX's daughter company, Agribot AI, where I was given full responsibility for two projects: a product simulator, and a growth model analysis
- Co-founder and 3-year President of Imperial's Cyber Security Society.
To be honest, the rest of this page is more for my own reference, but if you're interested in my Uni modules, please feel free to check the table below. If you'd rather see what projects I've been up to, please check out my Projects page.
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 | Finished |
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| Spring Term | Human-Centred Robotics | Group project: Design and build a robot that interacts with humans | Finished |
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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. |