Projects

Current and past projects.

Current

• 2023-: Mathematical modelling of post-pandemic alcohol drinking behaviour
  
  • Co-supervisor with Elin Williams (with Prof. Daniel Gartner and Prof. Paul Harper)
  • PhD project with the Gwent Regional Partnership Board.


• 2022-: Data Analytics Modelling Unit
  
  • £545,760 - Cardiff and Value University Health Board
  • Co-Investigator with Prof. Paul Harper as PI, Prof. Daniel Gartner as CI, and Dr Vincent Knight as CI.
  • Creates a modelling unit within the health board, with the aim to develop new and novel operational research models and techniques motivated by real healthcare problems arising in the health board, delivering impactful solutions.


• 2021-: Operational research to model orthopaedics
  
  • Co-supervisor with Matthew Howells' (with Prof. Paul Harper and Prof. Daniel Gartner)
  • PhD project with Cardiff and Value University Health Board.


• 2021-: Operational research for the adoption of video consultation services
  
  • Co-supervisor with Charlotte Marshall (with Prof. Daniel Gartner and Prof. Paul Harper)
  • PhD project with TEC Cymru.

Past

• 2023-2024: Cardiff Spelling Test
  
  • Co-Investigator with Jonathan Morris as PI, Rosanna Stenner as CI, and Dylan Foster Evans as CI.
  • Creation of a new Welsh language spelling test resource, and standardised score tables for the Central South Consortium.


• 2024: Mathematical Modelling Workshops in Indonesia
  
  • With Prof. Paul Harper as PI, Prof. Daniel Gartner, Dr Mark Tuson, and Dr Syaribah Brice.
  • Running workshops on optimisation, simulation, and forecasting Jakarta, Bandung, and Malang.


• 2020-2023: Modelling Emergency Medical Services in Indonesia
  
  • £559,202 - EPSRC Global Challenges Research Fund
  • With Prof. Paul Harper as PI, Prof. Daniel Gartner, Dr Vincent Knight, Dr Mark Tuson, and Dr Syaribah Brice.
  • Modelling and optimising ambulance allocations in Jakarta.


• 2021-2022: Cardiff Reading Test
  
  • Co-Investigator with Jonathan Morris as PI, Rosanna Stenner as CI, and Dylan Foster Evans as CI.
  • Creation of a new Welsh language reading test resource, and standardised score tables for the Central South Consortium.


• 2021: Reinforcement learning for strategies for avoiding PTSD in the military
  
  • Supervisor with Bryn Owen-Conway
  • Third year full project using Reinforcement Learning within a simulation to find strategies to avoid PTSD in the milirary.


• 2021: Optimising Pokémon teams in Python
  
  • Supervisor with Shan Jiang and Minzhong Kong
  • An MSc summer project using Python to optimise teams of Pokémon for single and double battles, using methods from integer programming and game theory.


• 2020/2021: Optimeiddio strategaethau gweinyddion mewn system ciwio
  
  • Supervisor with Isaac MacKay, Rhodri Davies
  • Third year full/half project using Markov Decision Processes to optimise server strategies a queueing system.


• 2020: Dadansoddi Game of Thrones gyda damcaniaeth graffiau
  
  • Supervisor with Math Owen
  • Third year full project using graph theory to analyse connections in Game of Thrones.


• 2020-2021: Learning English-Welsh bilingual embeddings and applications in text categorisation
  
  • £90,000 - Welsh Government
  • Co-Investigator with Dawn Knight as PI, Luis Espinosa Anke as CI, Vigneshwaran Muralidaran as CI, Irena Spasic as PI, and Padraig Cocoran as CI.
  • Develop and evaluate a bilingual word embeddings space for the Welsh and English using open text data. Explore the use of word embeddings for text categorisation.


• 2020: Exploring and demonstrating ways in which Ciw is applicable to hybrid simulations
  
  • Supervisor with Yawen Tian
  • An MSc summer project investigating how Ciw, along with other open source Python libraries, can be used to build an integrated discrete event simulation - systems dynamics model.


• 2020: Dysgu Peirianyddol yn Python ac R
  
  • Supervisor with Alun Owen
  • Third year half project writing Welsh language tutorials for conducting machine learning in Python and R.


• 2019-2020: Welsh words by numbers: "Wales" + "capital" = "Cardiff"
  
  • £90,000 - Welsh Government
  • Co-Investigator with Irena Spasic as PI, Padraig Cocoran as CI, and Dawn Knight as CI.
  • Develop and evaluate word embeddings for the Welsh language using open text data. Explore the use of word embeddings for language learning tools.


• 2019-2020: Modelling intensive care units with Cwm Taf Health Board
  
  • With Prof. Paul Harper and Cwm Taf Health Board
  • Modelling three intensive care units using data analysis and discrete event simulation techniques to explore potential future demographic or structural changes.


• 2019: Modelling a pooled system for personal protective equipment in the fire service
  
  • £1,606 - NESTA - Y Lab
  • With Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service and Y Lab.
  • Stochastic modelling of pooled personal protective equipment for Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service. Graph partitioning and Poisson modelling used to find optimal pool sizes and configurations.


• 2018: Creation of Welsh medium multi-media programming resources
  
  • £2,500 - Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol
  • With Stephanie Jones.
  • Development of a series of Welsh medium video tutorials for learning Python. Creation of a website with resources on reproducible research and sustainable software in Welsh.


• 2017-2018: Modelling cancer diagnostics with Cwm Taf Health Board
  
  • With Prof. Paul Harper, Cwm Taf Health Board and Wales Cancer Network
  • Investigating cancer diagnosis times within Cwm Taf Health Board, using data analysis, stochastic modelling, and discrete event simulation techniques. Modelling a range of possible cancer digniostics for a number of different cancer sites. Exploring ways to feasibly reach potential new cancer diagnosis time targets.


• 2017: Software Sustainability Institute fellowship
  
  • £3,000 - Software Sustainability Institute
  • Fellowship focussing on raising awareness of problems in reproducibility of computational research and sustainable software techniques.


• 2016-2017: A mathematics Summer school at UNAM
  
  • Participant with Cardiff University Phoenix Project and UNAM.
  • Supporting the establishment of, and helping run, a pre-university semester mathematics Summar school at UNAM in Windhoek, Namibia.


• 2015-2018: Supporting the Namibian programming community
  
  • Participant with Cardiff University Phoenix Project, UNAM and PyNam.
  • Supporting the establishment of an annual Python conference in Windhoek, Namibia.


• 2014-2018: PhD in applied stochastic modelling
  
  • £75,400 - Aneurin Bevan University Health Board (50%) and Cardiff University (50%)
  • PhD Student with Prof. Paul Harper and Dr Vincent Knight as supervisors.
  • Modelling of deadlock in queueing networks using Markov models and discrete event simulation. Modelling of patient flows in a healthcare organisation to evaluate a new healthcare intervention, Stay Well Plans, in Gwent. Development of an internationally used open source software package, Ciw.