Liam Kieran O'Driscoll

University of Surrey: Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

• Liaise with project members and contribute to discussions within an interdisciplinary team of 6 investigators across the 3 faculties of the University

• Obtain a deep understanding of quantitative and qualitative real-world data representing human emotions and situations

• Develop software for making predictions out of real-world data and actionable recommendations out of a causal map

• Take meeting minutes keeping track of meetings with internal staff and potential external collaborators

• Develop a Reinforcement Learning environment reflective of a causal map from a real-world data.

• Train agents to determine high traffic nodes that are crucial to carer’s mental and physical well-being

• Analyze and applied longitudinal data to enrich information within the nodes of the environment

• Apply real-world data to Large Language Models to produce a risk assessment score

• Apply different LLM models to determine an individual’s ability to continue caring for their patient

• Develop tools to automate the task of summarizing conversations to be used as input to prompt LLM models

Industrial Placement at Thales Group

• 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.

Surrey Anime and Manga Society Signatory Committee

• 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.

HK Public Affairs and Social Services Society Committee

• 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.

Computer Science Course Rep

• 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.

INTERNSHIP AT DAYTON INDUSTRIES

• 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.

University of Surrey

First Year: 79%

Second Year: 77%

Final Year: First-Class Honours