Background:

+ Home educated up to age of 16. GCSEs (taken as an external candidate): CDT, Electronics, English, Maths and Physics

+ Further education at Cambridge Centre for Sixth form Studies (CCSS); A-Levels: Computer Science, Maths and Physics

+ Undergraduate education at University of Manchester Institute for Science and Technology (UMIST); Software Engineering BEng (hons)

+ Worked for Philips Semiconductors; Software Engineer developing embedded solutions in C for their digital video broadcasting platforms. Multimedia, Hypermedia Experts Group (MHEG)

+ Various website development projects, including TheNewsPortal.net an autonomous news aggregation service.

+ Postgraduate degree at University College London (UCL); MSc VIVE (Vision, Imaging and Virtual Environments)

+ Continuing postgraduate education at University College London (UCL); MPhil/PhD (started November 2004) in modelling and tracking for mixed reality, funded by the Equator IRC and EPSRC. Supervised by Dr Anthony Steed and Dr Celine Loscos

Other Projects:

Particle Fabric Simulation [video] Project to model the movement of cloth using particle physics

Face Detection, Location and Capture System [video] Undergraduate final year project at UMIST Distributed system to locate, capture and track faces in video streams