Liam Kieran O'Driscoll

Guildford · Uk · liam3323@gmail.com

I am a very hard-working and adaptable final year BSc. Computer Science student seeking out new experiences to challenge oneself in an engaging work environment.


Experience

Industrial Placement at Thales Group

| AI Research Intern
  • Engaged in daily team meetings, collaborating with teammates, giving progress updates and suggestions to the future direction of projects.

  • Attained theoretical and practical skills in Reinforcement learning

  • Acquired proficiency in designing environments for training Reinforcement Learning agents using physics libraries in Python.

  • Successfully deployed, fine-tuned hyperparameters, and conducted evaluations of Reinforcement Learning agents using stable baselines.

  • Developed educational materials and academic write-ups on the Reinforcement Learning project.

  • Developed interpersonal relationships with team members and colleagues in a professional setting.

September 2022 - September 2023 | UK

Surrey Anime and Manga Society Signatory Committee

| Treasurer
  • Two time Society of the year Winner (2022 & 2023) and one time Alan Sutherland Award Winner (2023)

  • Liaisoned with committee members to organise two events per week for the largest society at the university of Surrey.

  • Managed the flow of funds and the society's personal manga library collection, as well as organising charity bake sales and contacting charities.

  • Successfully raised £3,500 in funds for Surrey Marrow, Islamic Relief, Cancer Research UK and Shooting Stars Children’s Hospices.

  • As well as organised, assigned and distributed work equally between committee members.

  • erved as Well-being Champion for the society, actively supporting students, signposting them to appropriate services.

April 2021 – April 2023 | UK

HK Public Affairs and Social Services Society Committee

| Public Announcement Officer
  • Led the subcommittee team to participate in public speaking forums, prepare the team for debates and adjudicate debates with other universities.

  • Wrote up bi-monthly news bits for social media posts, as well as wrote up most of the formal documents for the student's union.

April 2021 - Present | UK

Computer Science Course Rep

| First year + Second year
  • Worked with other computer science course representatives conveying concerns with the course to module leaders and lecturers.

  • Discussed with lecturers to find solutions benefiting both student university experience, in turn to improve the quality of the degree for future students.

| 2020 – Present | UK

INTERNSHIP AT DAYTON INDUSTRIES

| Intern
  • Experience with BLE technology interacting with a smartwatch heartbeat sensor using JavaScript.

  • Field testing energy efficiency, sensitivity, and effectiveness of different smart watch IR sensors from a final product and early design perspective.

  • GUI design for different smart watch faces as well as GUI layout for mobile app companion integration.

2019 June – August | HK

Summer Facility Audit

| Intern
  • Gained experience with manual data entry into a Microsoft access database to be cross-referenced to a bar-code.

  • Developed team working skills by working with a team of students recording each piece of furniture in the school in an organised and logical fashion.

2018 June - August | HK

Education

University of Surrey

Bachelor of Science
Computer Science with a year in placement

First Year: 79%

Second Year: 77%

Final Year: On-Track First-Class Honours

September 2020 - Present | UK

German Swiss International School

Primary and Secondary School

IB Grade: 7-5 (38/45 Total) | HL - Computer Science, Anthropology, Economics SL - German B, Math, English Literature
10 IGCSEs Grades from: A*-B : Math (A), Computer Science (A), Physics (A)

Sept 2008-2020 | HK

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
Projects & Modules
  • Final Year Project: "Applying Reinforcement Learning in Pokémon Red to explore complex multi-reward environments"
  • Computer Security: Implementations of various cryptography algorithms in Python and Elixir
  • Artifical Intelligence: Supervised Machine Learning of CNN Image Recognition of Kidney cells
  • Parallel Computing: Solving programming challenges using nvidia cuda cores
  • Software Engineering: Web Application using Vue and Nuxt framework
  • Computer Networking: Implementing a custom made Peer-to-Peer network protocol in Python
  • Data Structures and Algorithms
  • Advanced Algorithms
  • Distributed Systems: Implementation of Paxos in Elixir with Leader Election and Best Effort Broadcast
  • Operating Systems: Implementing a non-Contiguous Memory System in Java
  • Computer Logic: Making hangman game within ARM Assembly
  • Information Security Management
  • Information Retrieval
  • Foundations of Computing
  • Web Application Development
  • Web and Database Systems
  • Programming Fundamentals

Interests

When im not lurking in the shadows of my desktop at home, I enjoy investing most of my time into my hobbies and passion projects. When there is a special occasion coming up, I like to bake cakes and pasteries, such as carrot cake and tiramisu. If I am not in the kitchen baking or cooking I could be tinkering away with one of my custom PC builds or one of my many custom mechanical keyboards, testing out different sound profiles or switch types. My passion for keyboard goes so far that I sometimes work on a digital art design for a personalized deskmat or work on designing a PCB

When I feel adventurous and want to be active, I would walk to the sports park and spend my afternoon rock climbing at the in door climbing gym. However, I do miss the days when I was part of the ball hockey and field hockey team in primary and secondary school. When I do have more free time over summer or winter breaks I do also brush on my taekwondo skills.