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Introduction

Hi there 👋¤

My name is Max, a Research Software Engineer and HPC support member at Imperial College London helping researchers solve parallel processing issues and streamline their research software scripts into fully fledged open-source software fit for the wider community.

I completed my PhD at the University of Sheffield in the Pyne Lab where I helped uncover the role of DNA shape in self- and protein interactions through automated image analysis pipelines. I studied Physics at the University of Leeds during my undergraduate and Masters degree where I was introduced to Python and developed a love for scripting, coding and now software development.

  • 📫 How to reach me:

  • maxgamill(at)live.com

  • 😄 Pronouns: he/him

  • ⚡ Fun fact: In a stark contrast to coding, I love adrenaline sports such as trail running, mountain biking, climbing, and skiing.

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Current Interests¤

  • 🔭 I'm currently working on: image analysis workflows for atomic force microscopy images of DNA using TopoStats:
DNA tracing workflow
  • 🌱 I'm currently learning about: computer vision deep-learning models and how auto-encoders could help with shape analysis via transfer learning (private repo until published):
Inferring DNA shape via latent space variables

Additional Projects:¤

  • Created from scratch an interactive portfolio website showcasing early work such as; a simple feed-forward neural network to classify hand-drawn numbers trained on the MNIST dataset, a susceptible, recovered and infected (SIR) disease model, and monte-carlo simulations to model the magnetic moments of a 1D spin Ising model.
  • A key challenge here was to create a frontend which could take client-side variables (and mouse-drawn canvases!) and send these to the appropriate python scripts to be processed on the Raspberry Pi server.

  • The project used: a HTML, CSS and JavaScript frontend, a Django and AJAX backend, hosted on a Ubuntu Raspberry Pi, equipped with an Apache gateway and port forwarding. (The webserver is currently down to free up the Raspberry Pi for other projects). Source code available here.

  • (In progress) Creating from scratch an marketplace for personalised artwork / photo editing using a variety of algorithms and machine learning models (no generative models!). Once complete I hope that people would be able to apply funky filters to their own images and personalise them for cards / invitations such as those below:

Image website