Bio

Career:

Aug 2017 - present: Reader, School of Mathematics, The University of Edinburgh (Lecturer from Aug 2017 - Jul 2020)

Sep 2018 - Aug 2020: Fellow of The Alan Turing Institute, London

Aug 2017 - May 2018: EPSRC Fellow

Apr 2015 - Jul 2017: Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Kent

Apr 2015 - Jul 2017: EPSRC Fellow

Aug 2013 - Apr 2015: Whittaker Research Fellow, School of Mathematics, The University of Edinburgh

Mar 2013 - Aug 2013: EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow, University of Oxford

Oct 2009 - Mar 2013: DPhil Student in Numerical Analysis (supervised by Prof. Andy Wathen), Mathematical Institute and Worcester College, University of Oxford

Sep 2012 - Nov 2012: ESF Visiting Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg, Germany

Awards:

Dec 2018: Awarded EPSRC New Investigator Award (3 years), 'Modern Linear Algebra for PDE-Constrained Optimisation Models for Huge-Scale Data Analysis', more details here

Jul 2018: Awarded Fellowship of The Alan Turing Institute, London

Nov 2016: Awarded Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy

Feb 2016: University of Kent Faculty of Sciences Prize for Early Career Research [link]

Jun 2015: 17th IMA Leslie Fox Prize in Numerical Analysis - awarded Second Prize [link]

Feb 2015: Awarded EPSRC Fellowship (3 years), 'Fast Solvers for Real-World PDE-Constrained Optimization', more details here

Sep 2013: Best contribution at conference Domain Decomposition Methods for Optimization with PDE Constraints, for talk 'Preconditioned Iterative Methods for PDE-Constrained Optimization'

Jul 2013: Certificate from SIAM for 'outstanding contribution' at 25th Biennial Conference on Numerical Analysis, for talk 'Fast Iterative Solution of PDE-Constrained Optimization Problems'

Jun 2012: Awarded ESF Exchange Grant from European Science Foundation, to visit Max Planck Institute, Magdeburg (under the OPTPDE scheme)

May 2012: Awarded EPSRC Doctoral Prize for achievements as a DPhil student

Jul 2011: Certificate from SIAM for 'outstanding contribution' at 24th Biennial Conference on Numerical Analysis, for talk 'Fast Iterative Solvers for Convection-Diffusion Control Problems'

Also awarded an IMA Small Grant, a SIAM Travel Grant, EPSRC studentships for my MSc and DPhil studies, industrial funding for my MSc dissertation, and a Clothworker's Scholarship from St. Catherine's College, Oxford.