I grew up on the Isle of Wight, surrounded by natural beauty and a community that valued both creativity and sustainability. True to those roots, my first piece of academic work was an Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) at age 17, titled “Tidal Energy on the Isle of Wight”. It was a technical deep dive into tidal energy conversion devices, their local applicability, and a comparison with other sustainable energy technologies.

Despite a lifelong love for coding, I enrolled in Mechanical Engineering at Cardiff University to keep my options broad and to build a career where my work could come to life in the physical world. During my degree, I undertook an industrial placement at Bosch Thermotechnology within the Quality department. There I learned the value of continuous improvement, alongside practical skills in test rig control and sensor integration.

After Bosch, I pursued a more technical path and was awarded a place at KAIST — South Korea’s leading technology university. There I studied advanced topics in robotics, reinforcement learning, and AI for physical systems. KAIST’s competitive curved marking system challenged me more than any other period of my life and drove a period of significant personal and academic growth.

On returning, I completed my Master’s degree at Cardiff University (awarded with First Class Honours), where I excelled in simulation, sustainable energy system design, and mechatronics systems design.

Where I Am Now

I’m currently based on the Isle of Wight, reviewing the best opportunities to pursue a technically stimulating and rewarding career in robotics, reinforcement learning, or sustainable systems. I continue to grow my portfolio through independent projects that combine my two passions: engineering physical systems and programming intelligent control.

My Timeline

  • “Extended Project Qualification: A feasibility study of Tidal Energy on the Isle of Wight”
  • First Class undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Degree:
    • Programming focus
    • Bosch Thermotechnology Ltd: Industrial placement, Quality Dept.
    • Dissertation: Control of a Hydraulic Cylinder System under Varying Loads
  • First Class Master’s Mechanical Engineering Degree:
    • Simulation & Mechatronics focus
    • KAIST (South Korea): Robotics, Reinforcement Learning, AI
    • Energy Park Project: A Feasability-Aware Portfolio for the Design & Installation of a Hybrid Tidal & Wind Farm in the Severn Estuary
    • Mechatronics Project: The Design and Evaluation of Haptic Feedback Methods and Environmental Impacts on a Wearable Navigation System
  • Now: Independent projects in software, RL, and systems engineering for robotics