In addition to my research activities, I am committed to CPD (Continuing Professional Development) and hence regularly undertake training that compliments my existing skillsets. Provided below is a non-exhaustive list of activities:

2021
February	JamiesAviation.com: Aviation Weather Retriever command-line utility now available! I have released my Aviation Weather Retriever command-line utility on JamiesAviation.com. Written in Java, the tool retrieves US NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) reports — it is designed for pilots who are IT savvy and have a terminal window handy. I have released this simple tool that I personally use before flights to obtain raw METARs (Metereological Terminal Aerodrome Reports) and TAFs (Terminal Aerodrome Forecast). Obtaining the raw reports, which are easily interpreted by pilots, is often quicker than using a mobile app as they can be easily deciphered and the command syntax is also very straighforward.
November	Manuscript formally accepted at Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal (ADCAIJ) Watch this space!
October	Passed UK CAA Flight-Crew License Private Pilot theoretical exam PPL 060 Air Navigation (A) (PPL060A)
September	Passed UK CAA Flight-Crew License Private Pilot theoretical exam PPL 090 Communications (A) (PPL090A)
	Conference talk: MatBio 2021, Foundations of Mathematics for Bioinformatics, King's college London I presented a talk at the MatBio '21 conference covering work done at Imperial, with our collaborators, on the nascent area of DNA storage, that is the use of DNA as a storage medium. The title of the talk is: Encoding information into DNA
	Passed UK CAA Flight-Crew License Private Pilot exams Passed all 6/6 of the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Part-FCL (Flight Crew Licence) exams I sat in a single sitting, at the first attempt. 3 exams remain, which I have not yet attempted. PPL 010 Air Law (A) (PPL010A) PPL 020 Aircraft General (A) (PPL020A) PPL 040 Human Performance (A) (PPL040A) PPL 050 Meteorology (A) (PPL050A) PPL 070 Operational Procedures (A) (PPL070A) PPL 081 Principles of Flight (A) (PPL081)
August	HPC (High-Performance Computing) educational paper published at PLOS Computational Biology: Fifteen Quick Tips for Success with HPC, i.e. Responsibly BASHing that Linux Cluster Featured on the front page of the July 2021 edition of PLos Comp. Bio.
July	Imperial: Consulting for Drug Development company
June	Manuscript formally accepted at PLOS Computational Biology Watch this space!
May	PFDC (Post-doctoral and Fellows Development Centre) training
April	Imperial: Consulting for Drug Development company OligoArchive Review Meeting
March	Imperial PFDC: The PostDoc Entrepreneur I attended a Post-doctoral and Fellows Development Centre training course on entrepreneurship.
	Genomics England: Large-scale genome analysis of viral insertions I am currently running a large-scale genomic analysis using the pipeline I developed to disover viral insertions. This work is part of the Genomics England Clinical Interpretation Partnership (GeCIP) with Imperial College London.
February	I peer reviewed a paper for: Briefings in Bioinformatics journal, Oxford University Press.
	Imperial PFDC: Intellectual Property I attended a Post-doctoral and Fellows Development Centre training course on how intellectual property rights impact research.
January	Imperial PFDC: Project Management I attended a Post-doctoral and Fellows Development Centre training course on project management.
	HPC training paper released pre-print (arXiv): Ten Simple Rules for Success with HPC, i.e. Responsibly BASHing that Linux Cluster
	Imperial PFDC Workshop: Personal Pitching I attended a Post-doctoral and Fellows Development Centre session on selling and pitching research and expertise
2020
December	Genomics England recognises research published in my COVID-19 pre-print: Distributed Computing in a Pandemic: A Review of Technologies available for Tackling COVID-19 This work was featured in their list of notable research: Publications leveraging Genomics England data assets and Research Environment
	Imperial PFDC/CfAE Workshop: Writing Tools for Research Publication Success I attended a workshop run by Imperial's CfAE (Centre for Academic English) which focused on writing for STEM research.
November	Imperial PFDC Workshop: Publishing Metrics I attended a Post-doctoral and Fellows Development Centre session on metrics as evidence of research impact.
	I participated in the OligoArchive Review Meeting This was between the EU Horizon 2020 team and Oligoarchive collaboration partners and I presented my contribution to the project. It involved Imperial College London and partners CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Universitė Côte D'Azure, Eurecom and Helix-works.
	FST Future Leaders Conference 2020: Science, Technology & Research in Universities I attended the FST (Foundation for Science and Technology) Future Leaders Conference 2020 - Science, Technology & Research in Universities. The keynote presentation was by Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, Vice-Chancellor, University of Manchester.
	FST Future Leaders Conference 2020: Research and Innovation in Industry I attended the FST (Foundation for Science and Technology) Future Leaders Conference 2020 - Research and Innovation in Industry. The keynote presentations were by Dr Loubna Bouarfa, Founder and CEO, Okra Technologies and Steve Rees, Vice-President for Discovery Biology, AstraZeneca.
	FST Future Leaders Conference 2020: Science and Government I attended the FST (Foundation for Science and Technology) Future Leaders Conference 2020 - Science and Government. The keynote presentation was by Professor Sir Patrick Vallance, Government Chief Scientific Advisor.
	Imperial PFDC Workshop: Publishing Masterclass I attended a Post-doctoral and Fellows Development Centre session on publishing scientific papers in high-impact journals.
	Imperial PFDC Workshop: Public Engagement I attended a Post-doctoral and Fellows Development Centre session on public engagement.
October	Research paper released pre-print (arXiv): Distributed Computing in a Pandemic: A Review of Technologies available for Tackling COVID-19
September	I participated in the 1st Annual OligoArchive Meeting This involved Imperial College London and partners CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Universitė Côte D'Azure, Eurecom and Helix-works.
August	Research paper released pre-print (BioRxiv): Intra-exon motif correlations as a proxy measure for mean per-tile sequence quality data in RNA-Seq
	Imperial PFDC Workshop: Making the most of LinkedIn I attended a Post-doctoral and Fellows Development Centre session on LinkedIn.
July June May	Imperial: Consulting for Drug Development company Ongoing consulting as part of my role at Imperial.
April	Genomics Research with Genomics England - The 100,000 Genomes Project I designed and implemented a distributed HPC (High-Performance Computing) genomics pipeline to search for viral insertions into human genomes. This work is in accordance with the Genomics England Clinical Interpretation Partnership (GeCIP), an international consortium of researchers, clinicians and trainees, established to improve understanding and practice of clinical genomics, and uncover new medical insights for patients.
March	OligoArchive - DNA storage Research Commenced work on the OligoArchive DNA-Storage Research project to overcome current storage technology limitations - i.e. durability and obsolescence - by devising and developing methods in which synthetic DNA is used as a storage medium. DNA, the biomolecule in which the genetic information of life is stored, is an extremely dense 3D storage medium with the theoretical capacity of 455 EB (Exabytes) per g, and can last millenia in a cold, dark environment. Current developments in DNA sequencing and synthesis, on which this technology is dependent, will ensure this is feasible in the not too distant future.
February	New Research position at Imperial College London Gained a Post-doctoral Research Associate position in Thomas Heinis's group (distributed software engineering and large-scale storage systems) in the Department of Computing. Training: Completed two training courses from Nature Publishing's Master classes I completed the following courses: i) Scientific writing and publishing - a three-part training course on research paper writing and publishing, also covering the writing and publishing of review papers ii) Focus on peer review.
January	Workshop: Intro to Quantum Computing and circuits, ICR I attended a taster session introducing quantum computing and the development of quantum-circuits using quantum gates applied to qubits.
2019
December	Secured Post-Doctoral Research Associate position at Imperial College, London for 2020 I will be pursuing research at Imperial College London from early 2020. More to follow.
November	I peer reviewed a paper for: Briefings in Bioinformatics journal, Oxford University Press.
	Conference: Big Data LDN (London) 2019 The event hosts commercial data and analytics experts, presenting tools to deliver effective data-driven strategies. Attending are 130 leading technology vendors and consultants, 150 expert speakers in 9 technical and business-led conference theatres, with real-world use-cases and panel debates.
October	Delivered Python Programming Course, ICR Sutton I delivered the Python Programming course (3 days of lectures) with a colleague. The course was designed specifically for researchers at the ICR (Institute of Cancer Research) and Royal Marsden hospital.
September	Applied Deep-learning to medical image anonymisation I implemented and delivered a project that applies a pre-trained convoluted neural network to anonymise medical DICOM images. These contain patient identifiable information that has been burned into the pixels in scans which needs removal to enable ethical use and sharing of the images for research. The project is fully automated and a containerised solution provides easy invocation of the functionality and integration.
July	Conference talk: MatBio '19, Foundations of Mathematics for Bioinformatics, King's college London I presented a talk at the MatBio '19 conference discussing work I've been doing at the ICR, the title was: Fostering Reproducibility, Standardisation, Fault-tolerance and Deployability in Computational Pipelines using Nextflow Workflow Language - Adoption and Training at the ICR.
June	Conference: ICR Internal Annual Conference I attended the Institute of Cancer Research's Internal Annual Conference, held at Royal Holloway.
May	Research paper (with Prof. Brian Austen et al.) goes out to print in American Journals of Chemistry Vol. 3, No. 01, pp. 1-11: Cyclisation of Cell-Penetrating PDZ-Binding Peptides Directed to PSD95
April	I peer reviewed a paper for: IT Professional journal, IEEE.
	I attended an LTA (Lawn Tennis Association) Tennis Focus Group at the The National Tennis Centre, Roehampton.
	Organised a two day Scientific Programming Workshop (Nextflow Workflow language) for ICR Researchers, Scientists, and Bioinformaticians. This workshop equips participants with a grounding in developing standardised, reproducible, easy to maintain and deploy computational pipelines. The course was delivered by Paolo di Tommaso and Evan Flodden (Nextflow Developers) of SeqeraLabs.
March	Conference: ICR Internal Informatics Conference I attended the Institute of Cancer Research's Internal Informatics Conference, Sutton.
February	I peer reviewed a paper for: Briefings in Bioinformatics journal, Oxford University Press.
2018
December	Research paper goes out to print in IJFCS (International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science) Vol. 29, No. 08, pp. 1355-1372: Transcriptomics: Quantifying Non-Uniform Read Distribution Using MapReduce
	Suggested/Attended distinguished guest lecture: Structural biology and drug discovery: Fighting the emergence of resistance in cancer and mycobacterial infections - A talk by Sir Prof. Tom Blundell, Cambridge, given to the dept. of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, London I (through colleagues) invited Sir Prof. Tom Blundell to the Department of Computer Science at Royal Holloway to give our Distinguished Guest lecture on structural biology.
November	Research paper goes out to print in Briefings in Bioinformatics: The application of Hadoop to Structural Biology
	Talk: Developing and Standardising Computational pipelines using a workflow language, ICR Sutton/Chelsea (Videolinked) The audience was a panel of researchers who routinely use HPC (High Performance Computing) in fields such as Genomics, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Drug discovery and Image analysis. The topic was Developing and Standardising Computational pipelines using a workflow language.
October	Delivered Python Programming Course, ICR Chelsea I delivered the Python Programming course (3 days of lectures). The course was designed specifically for researchers at the ICR (Institute of Cancer Research) and Royal Marsden hospital
August	Conference: MatBio '18, Foundations of Mathematics for Bioinformatics, King's college London I previously presented a talk at this conference (MatBio '16). This year I attended without giving a talk.
July	Research review paper released pre-print (BioRxiv): The application of Hadoop in Structural Bioinformatics
	Doctoral Graduation: Royal Holloway My Doctoral degree was conferred on me in the official Doctoral graduation ceremony at Royal Holloway, University of London:
June	Conference: ICR Internal Annual Conference I attended the Institute of Cancer Research's Internal Annual Conference, held at Royal Holloway.
May	Awarded Doctorate (Ph.D.) [Computer Science] Ph.D.: The Analysis of High-Throughput Biological Datasets Utilising Distributed Computing. I was awarded my Doctorate of Philosophy in Computer Science (Ph.D.) from the University of London (Royal Holloway).
April	Delivered Python Programming Course, ICR Sutton I delivered the Python Programming course (3 days of lectures). The course was designed by Dr. Igor Kozin, for researchers at the ICR (Institute of Cancer Research) and Royal Marsden hospital
March	New Role at the Insitute of Cancer Research, London Commenced work as a Scientific Programmer in the Scientific Computing department.
2017
September	Research paper goes out to print in JIB (Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics): A Novel Method to Detect Bias in Short Read NGS Data
	Conference: MatBio '17, Foundations of Mathematics for Bioinformatics, King's college London I previously presented a talk at this conference (MatBio '16). This year I attended without giving a talk.
March	Lecture: CS3110/CS5110 Bioinformatics module, Royal Holloway, London I delivered the guest lecture to Computer Science students for their CS3110/CS5110 Bioinformatics module. The talk focussed on Next-Gen. Sequencing (NGS) and Transcriptomics and briefly discussed cluster computing and the cloud for analysis of RNA-seq data.
2016
September	Developed system: Push notifications for iOS, Android for Choose-survey project. I implemented the push-notifications system for the Choose survey project, for the Department of Economics at Royal Holloway. Read more about it: Choose-Survey project.
July	Conference talk: MatBio '16, Foundations of Mathematics for Bioinformatics, King's college London I presented a talk at the MatBio '16 conference, the title was Transcriptomics: Leveraging a MapReduce algorithm and Python for gene-expression analysis on Apache Spark:
May	Conference editor/talk: CSPRC-16 (Computer Science Postgraduate Research Colloquium) This year I was editor and co-organiser with a fellow Ph.D. student. Conference talk: CloudTech-16, Marrakech, Morocco I gave a talk at CloudTech. [ View slides ]:
2015
September	Developed New system: Choose-Survey Survey-Monkey integrated platform. I developed a system conceived by the Economics department. Choose Survey is a survey delivery and respondent tracking system integrated with SurveyMonkey and the University's IT user authentication system. Choose Survey delivers university developed surveys to the user (targeted at currently enrolled undergraduate students) via an Android app and Wordpress derived mobile friendly site. Read more about it: Choose-Survey project.
July	Conference talk: ISCB 3D Sig (Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics) Part of the ISCB (International Society for Computational Biology) event in Dublin, July 2015. I will present PDB-Hadoop (a Hadoop framework for parallelising legacy applications on the PDB)
May	Research paper goes out to print in GigaScience: Investigation into the annotation of protocol sequencing steps in the sequence read archive
	Conference talk: Big Data Analytics Training Workshop, MSTI ENSIAS I delivered a Ph.D. research talk. This event was organised through the collaboration of the British Council, MSTI (Mediterranean Space of Technology and Innovation) and ENSIAS (École nationale supérieure d'informatique et d'analyse des systèmes), Rabat, Morocco:
May	M.Phil/Ph.D. Upgraded to Ph.D. Proper CSPRC-15 (Computer Science Postgraduate Research Colloquium)
February	Conference talk: Developing data-driven biology within Morocco workshop I will be presenting my research at the Developing data-driven biology within Morocco workshop in Tangier which has been organised by The British Council and runs from 16th - 19th February.
	Just announced as an RDA 5th Plenary Early Career Support Programme Winner: RDA Fifth Plenary meeting in San Diego, March 9 to 11.
2014
July	Attending the JSPS UK-Japan Meeting titled "From Duplexes to Quadruplexes 0x2013 Understanding DNA Structure and Function" conference held at the University of Reading, showcasing collaboration between the UK and Japan.
June	Attended conference: Fisher Centre for Computational Biology meeting A special joint event involving the RA Fisher Centre for Computational Biology and the Bloomsbury Research Institute which is a centre of excellence on infectious diseases resulting from a joint venture between the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and UCL. RA Fisher Centre meetings aim to bring together UCL and Crick Institute research groups active in Computational Biology research.
	CSPRC-14 (Computer Science Postgraduate Research Colloquium) Myself and another Ph.D. student, Ionut Tutu, have coordinated this years Colloquium and have compiled a booklet of abstracts in which our work is also featured: CSPRC14-Abstract booklet, CSPRC14-programme.
2013
December	Developed Athena molecular visualisation software for the Spark-64 (CPU) Solaris (OS) platform.
September	Commenced Ph.D. programme, Royal Holloway University of London
May	Awarded Diploma in Photography from the Institute of Photography
2011-2012	Pharmacist Pre-registration training with GPhC [elected not to register as I gained a Ph.D scholarship]
2011
November	Conference poster: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC): Protein and Peptide Science Group Early Stage Researcher Meeting, London I presented my masters project "Characterisation of cyclic neuroprotective PDZ binding ligands" alongside Ph.D. research, under the supervision of Prof. Brian Austen.
October	First Aider Training and Certiication, Portsmouth I undertook First aider training for which I was certified.
July	Awarded Masters in Pharmacy/Chemistry (M.Pharm) Masters: Characterisation of Cyclic Neuroprotective PDZ binding ligands. I was awarded my Masters from Kingston University and St. Georges hospital medical school.
2010
October	Developed Zeus molecular visualisation software to support my research masters project. Zeus was developed to view Brookhaven PDB files and was originally used to view interactions of PDZ binding ligands to the PDZ1 domain of PSD-95 protein, facilitating the labelling of residues which Rasmol, at the time, could not do. This allowed me to investigate putative ligands prior to synthesis. Zeus then was expanded to support other popular molecular file formats such as: Mol, Mol2/SYBYL, CSF, and XYZ formats. The ability to compute/infer hydrogen-bonds and hydrogen atoms (when not present in the model) was also added in the early release. The function to plot Ramachandran plots was added shortly after.
2009
November	Developed PharmCalc.com online Clinical and Pharmacokinetics calculations tool for educational purposes whilst studying clinical pharmacokinetics. The aim of PharmCalc is to harness modern client-side technology (JavaScript) to provide a time-saving means of performing common pharmacy calculations thereby assisting the pharmacist in the design and validation of dosage regimes that are efficacious and minimally toxic. The computational method allows for easy adjustment of calculation parameters, practically instantaneously, obviating the need to go through the tedious process of re-calculating by hand.