University of Liverpool
BSc Computer Science, First Class Honours.
University of Edinburgh
MSc High Performance Computing with Data Science
Availability
| Coursework and dissertation complete | 2026.08 |
| Available to start | 2026.09.01 |
| Degree certificate issued | 2026.12 |
Coursework and the dissertation both finish in August 2026, so I can work full time from September.
Education
Technical skills
claims the projects can back| Programming & engineering | Python, C/C++, SQL · Linux, Bash, Git, pytest |
|---|---|
| Agent & LLM applications | Agent architectures, prompt engineering, function calling, eval design |
| Backend & databases | FastAPI, SQLite/MySQL, REST/HTTP fundamentals |
| ML & high performance computing | PyTorch, pandas, NumPy · MPI, OpenMP, scaling analysis |
Projects
full detail →Agent-style performance analysis over HPC benchmark data
- Imported real benchmark runs into SQLite behind deterministic analysis tools.
- Added an LLM function-calling router scored on the same eval set: 83.3% vs 100%, ablation 63.3%.
- Hardened the boundary so failures are explicit rather than guessed.
- Kept it checkable: deterministic reports, structured tracing, 229 offline tests.
Value factorisation in multi-agent actor-critic methods
- A single-variable comparison of three critic designs inside MAPPO.
- Result against intuition: the simplest critic won.
- Traced the cause and wrote the negative results into the dissertation.
PETSc solver scaling study on ARCHER2
- Ran a controlled MPI+OpenMP layout study up to 32 nodes / 4,096 cores.
- Hybrid beat flat MPI in both dimensions; 29.83× at 93.2% efficiency in 2D.
- Retracted an earlier stage after an audit; 408 audited runs carry the conclusions.
- Located the mechanism with Linaro MAP profiling.
Research & publication
Convolutional Neural Networks Based Medical Image Analysis
Li, Leyan. EMITI 2024.
String Art Generator Based on the Radon Transform
An image-to-string-art pipeline with preprocessing and a parameter interface.
Contact
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