Hello!
nice to meet you
or perhaps
we meet again
we meet again
I'm
Don
love wandering and wondering
doing what I can with what I've got
most days are a good time
weekends are mine
I collect good conversations
and the people who bring them
also lovemistaking things on purpose
...shadows are also a way to capture light
...lies are truths in disguise
...silence is the only honest noise
I studyneuroscience
andclinical neuroimaging
somehow
a few things went right
DateItem
2025£888.05
EG Fearnside Award
Travel Fund
[ link ]2025£800
ED Davies Travel Fund
For attending the 31st Annual Meeting of the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping
[ details ]2025£2,000 & GPU Prize
AI x Cancer Biology Hackathon Winner
GetSeen Ventures & CRUK Cambridge Centre AI x Cancer Bio Hackathon
[ details ]2024£27.6k/Year
UKRI International Fee Bursary
UKRI PhD Bursary
2024· · ·
Mercia Award Department Nomination
Imperial College London
2024· · ·
Cambridge Trust Scholarship
Full PhD Scholarship, School of Clinical Medicine
2024· · ·
Doctoral Training Programme
School of Clinical Medicine DTP
[ link ]2023£6,000
International Excellence Scholarship
University College London
2022· · ·
CSC-Bristol Scholarship
China Scholarship Council & Bristol PhD Scholarship
2022· · ·
Best Final Project Award
Best Final Project (Experimental Psychology)
10 Itemsand counting
* * *
I've always thought
planning your life
is overrated
what actually happens is
a question getsstuck in your head
and you go looking
for wherever might answer it
and soschoolsthe long way round
2024 - Current
Cambridge, UK · Fully funded (DTP-MRC), School of Clinical Medicine. Research: Multimodal neuroimaging for cognitive decline/dementia.
2023 - 2024Distinction
London, UK · Research: Biomimetic NNs for signal denoising (Kozlov Lab). Modules: Neuroscience, Biomimetics, BCI.
2022-2023Distinction (77)
Master of Research (MRes) - Biomedical Engineering
Kings College London
London, UK · Modules: Robotics, Adv. ML, Bionics & Neurotech, Surgical Tech.
2018-2022Distinction (78)
Bachelor of Science (BSc) - Psychology
University of Bristol
Bristol, UK · Modules: Evolution, Language, Cognitive/Dev/Social Psych.
2022
Public Health Short Course
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Bogotá, Colombia · Focus: Colombian public health system structure and healthcare provision.
2017 - 2018Distinction (80)
Biology International Foundation Course
Newcastle University
Newcastle, UK
Back when
I was still in school
Between classes
there are always gaps
the things you build in those gaps
sometimes
look more like you
than anything you ever submitted
stuff I've made (or tried to)
01Signal Complexity of Cortical Functional Connectivity Networks Across the Lifespan
02PyTFCE — Probabilistic Threshold-Free Cluster Enhancement
03Latent Diffusion Models for Brain MRI
04UNet Ensemble Learning
05Multi-Modal Phenotyping for Tuberculous Meningitis
06Surgical Path Planning with Robotic Operating System (ROS)
07MindSet
08Measuring Perceptual Similarity in Neural Networks
09Orthographic Deep Neural Networks
the way I see it
A tool's highest form
is being forgotten
because the problem it solved
has vanished entirely
and so it earns
the right to disappear
the greatest tools
are the ones no one remembers
I do have a fewI'm comfortable withones I can still name
none of it
was planned before it was learned
because reality
always feels like
having too many tabs open at once
after a whilehere and therefixing things upI've picked up some experience
2022 - 2023Bristol, UK
Researcher
Developed and trained models via distributed cloud computation; Designed, generated, and maintained datasets & GitHub repo for testing cognitive phenomena in ANNs; Contributed to high-impact journal publications.
2023 - 2024London, UK
Former Co-Founder & Tech Lead
Supported interns/junior staff; Developed & tested initial prototype tech; Seeking first-round funding with King's College.
2021London, UK
Machine learning Engineer
Amine Cyber
Evaluated and developed RL algorithms to predict student knowledge levels pre/post learning sessions.
2022 - 2023London, UK
Research Intern (Biomedical Engineering)
Used multi-modal models (image/non-image data) to phenotype brain lesions in Tuberculous Meningitis patients.
2020Shenzhen, China
Data analytics (Reverse Engineering & Optimisation)
Applied cutting-edge interpretation methods for compiled code analysis; Results published on developer site.
Latelymost days
I've been in the lab
wrestling puzzles
designing funcs &tuning params
thenwait
Like playing chess
blindfolded against someone silent
you make a move
and the only answer iswhat changes
In all of this
what trulykeeps you coming back
isn't the discovery
it's thehalf-second before it breaks
when the old lens finally cracks
and we see the world again
just a littledifferently