Ben Snow's Blog
I am an independent machine learning contractor who is passionate about computer vision and artificial intelligence. During my EngD, I gained research experience with many computer vision concepts including depth estimation and denoising diffusion probabilistic modelling. I am keenly interested in turning proof-of-concept research into usable, scalable business products. My training as an Experimental Physicist in Manchester’s Graphene and 2D materials group guides my scientific approach. I am currently looking for Outside IR35 contract work in machine learning and computer vision.
2019-present Doctor of Engineering (EngD) - Currently on 12 month interruption of studies until 01/01/2023Relevant Courses
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2015-2019 Master of Physics (MPhys)Grade: 2:1 Upper Second Class HonoursPublicationsRelevant Courses
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University of Maryland College Park2017-2018 Year abroardGrade: First class equivalentPublicationsRelevant Courses
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Research initiative involving Bournemouth University, University of Southampton, University of Leeds, and University College London to investigate the feasibility of Drone delivery for last-mile logistics and the NHS.
March 2020 - currently interrupting studies until 01/01/2023, Remote
Griffon Hoverwork Ltd. are a hovercraft manufacturer and designer based in Southampton, UK. They are interested in leveraging the high-end games engine, Unreal Engine 4, to develop a driving simulator to help train and test trainee pilots to drive their craft.
Do you save money, energy, time or risk? I am developing a Unity game in C# to understand the tradeoffs of these factors and more when it comes to drones being used for last-mile logistics.
Hovercraft are expensive, can’t we make a simulator instead? I researched and developed a physics-based driving simulator for training hovercraft pilots for Griffon Hoverwork Ltd. to allow them to do exactly that!
Can we use heat and magnetism to speed up computers and save energy? In my MPhys research, I investigated the effects of magnetisation direction and temperature gradient on the resistivity of a 2D cobalt film on hBN and SiO2 substrates for graphene spintronics applications to find out if it’s possible.
The game, Mrs. Hudson, is on! The game here is the quest to find Neutrinoless Double Beta decay and show that neutrinos act as their own antiparticles. Here I derive from first principles the conservation laws surrounding Majorana particles from the Dirac equation and discuss their impact.