William Graham

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Mathematician turned Research Software Developer.

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Education and Skills

Talking about myself is usually rather dull and tiresome for the other party involved; but here you can see a summary of my education, work and research experience, and personal interests. So if you’re looking for a brief summary, the TLDR is below:

Education

PhD in Statistical Applied Mathematics

2017 - 2022, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath

For more information about my PhD research, please look at this page.

MSci Mathematics and Physics

2013 - 2017, Dept. of Physics, University of Bath

First Class

GCE A-levels

2011 - 2013, Worthing College

GCSE Qualifications

2009 - 2011, St. Andrews CE High School for Boys

Employment

Research Software Developer

2022 - present, Centre for Advanced Research Computing, University College London

Research software developers (RSE/Ds) within ARC work on a wide range of academic projects that are both lead by the Centre for Advanced Research Computing, and run in collaboration with other departments internal and external to UCL. Projects can range between 1 month developments to continual support and maintenance of research software, with RSEs typically working on up to 2 projects at a time. There is a great diversity in the research contexts, software tools, and deliverable outcomes of the projects that ARC is involved with - and the RSEs within the team have the skillset to jump into a project and rapidly apply their expertise to progress the project.

RSEs within ARC also coordinate a number of the department’s teaching activities, as well as contribute to the development and delivery of internal (to UCL) and external training materials and communities.

During my time at ARC, I have worked on;

I’ve also been involved in ARC’s education activities as a module lead and organiser for the Software Carpentry workshops, which you can read about on this page.

Data Analyst

Summer (July - Sept) of 2013, 2014, and 2016, Permasense Ltd.

Permasense Ltd. is an Imperial Innovations startup company that develops and manufactures remote corrosion and erosion monitoring systems, which has since been acquired by Emerson. During my experience at Permasense I undertook a number of roles and tasks, including:

Additional Work and Research Experience

Integrative Think Tanks (ITTs) I have participated in SAMBa's 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th ITTs during my time as part of the CDT. ITTs are a week-long event in which industrial partners of SAMBa are invited to present problems faced by their industry. Students, academics, and employees work together to turn these problems into mathematical questions that can be solved, or taken forward as a PhD project to address the original problems presented in industry. This develops the students' ability to rapidly take in and understand new concepts and information, collaborate with experts in a different field to theirs, and provides practice in then presenting their results back to a variety of audiences. You can read more about what an ITT is here.


Skills and Competencies

Programming Competencies

Experience working in the following languages for research and/or employment purposes:

I’m also familiar with Fortran and document typesetting with \(\LaTeX\) and creating diagrams in TikZ (far too familiar with the latter, to be honest). I also managed to piece this website together, and write a simple webapp for internal UCL assessment purposes, although I wouldn’t say I’m super in the know about web development tools.

Organisational Skills