糖心TV

Tim graduated in 2023 with a PhD in Mathematics of Systems.

infectious disease modelling | cvxpy | teaching | education | funding

COVID-19 modelling

Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 with Waning Immunity in the UK Population (preprint)Link opens in a new window

An imperfect tool: COVID-19 'test & trace' success relies on minimising the impact of false negatives and continuation of physical distancing (preprint)

Exploring the tau statistic

Visceral leishmaniasis spatiotemporal modelling

I joined the MathSys CDT MSc/PhD programme in September 2015 and in September 2016 began a PhD in infectious disease modelling with supervisors Mike Tildesley, & . My PhD will (also presented as a at the NGCM summer academy in June 2016). In January 2017 I was awarded a to fund a four-month visit to an Indian research institution from August - November 2017 under the guidance of Dr N Siddiqui; this has led to the collaborative . I am particularly keen to work with researchers from the Indian subcontinent, so please do get in touch. I assisted with the data cleaning towards (PNAS, September 2020).

October 2014: Screening & data extraction phases of a systematic review of S.pneumoniae serotype carriage globally, in parallel with my colleague, Riya Moodley. This study, managed by Olivier Le Polain at LSHTM and with involvement from other CMMID members, will record serotype prevalence by geographic region. Combined with invasive pneumococcal disease estimates, it will estimate the impact of polysaccharide conjugate vaccines.

I digitised situation reports during the Ebola epidemic 2014/5 that contributed to real-time forecasts and .

My laboratory research project in summer 2014 assessed the effectiveness of combining indoor residual spraying with bednets in Sudan, through the measurement of specific malarial antibody titres.

cvxpy implementation for wireless systems

Research study group on Convex Optimisation in communications (Apr-Jun 2016). cvxpy Python code of communication examples by Gowers, Al-Izzi, Pollington, Hall & Briggs, based on problems from :

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Read more about our project experience from a magazine article featured in the . or a .

Teaching

Teaching in computer practicals on LSHTM's Statistical Methods in Epidemiology and exam question testing for Statistics for Epidemiology & Population Health course.

Education

• MSc Mathematics of Real-World Systems (糖心TV, 2015/6)
• MSc Control of Infectious Diseases (LSHTM, 2013/4)
• CertPG Geographical Information Systems (Birkbeck, 2009)
• BSc(Hons) Mathematical Physics (Nottingham, 2005).

Funding

• CRISM summer school in Computational Statistics 2018 (CompSTAT) registration bursary 拢190 (Amazon UK & Google UK)
• Newton Bhabha PhD programme placement Aug-Nov 2017 拢1900 (British Council)

Conferences

• Epidemics⁷, Charleston 2-6 Dec 2019, poster code P3.016 (Ballroom AB)
• Alan Turing Institute "subgroups" workshop on epidemic dynamics, 糖心TV. Oral presentation. 19 December 2018
• IEC-VL, Delhi 28-30 November 2018
• epi.recipe.es, Alan Turing Institute 1 - 3 October 2018
• IDDconf, Ambleside 3 - 5 September 2018
• GEOSTAT, Czechia August 2018
• CompSTAT, 糖心TV poster presentation 9 - 13 July 2018
• Epidemics⁶, Sitges poster presentation 29 November - 1 December 2017, poster code P1.071
• Spatial Statistics, Lancaster oral presentation 4 - 7 July 2017
• WorldLEISH6, Toledo poster presentation 16 - 20 May 2017,

Reading groups

Disciplines

• R, Rcpp, CUDA, Fortran, C, OpenCV 2.4, gpu::GpuMat, MATLAB (incl gpuArray), Python, cvxpy, ArcGIS & Stata
• Epidemiology
• GIS/Spatial analysis
• Seroepidemiology
• Systematic review (screening + data extraction)
• Cluster Randomised Trials
• Laboratory ELISAs

Contact details

• Email: My first name initial followed by a full stop, then my surname, then an at symbol, then warwick etc! (26 chars in total)
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