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This page summarises my past experience, projects and interests.

Basics

Name Jamie McGowan
Label Research Scientist
Email jamie.mcgowan@mtkresearch.com
Url https://jamie-mcg.github.io/al-folio/
Summary I am a Research Scientist in AI focussed on exploring topics in foundational AI. My research interests include topics surrounding optimisation, meta-learning, structured intelligence and challenges in representation learning. In addition, my research involves developing real-world applications of AI to solve engineering problems.

Work

  • 2022.10 - Present
    Research Scientist
    MediaTek Research
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
    • Research
    • Applied Mathematics
    • Deep Learning
  • 2022.01 - 2022.10
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    UCL Centre for Data Intensive Science and Industry
    I received a funded fellowship position to work collaboratively with the Machine Learning team at ASOS building a system to predict customer returns using Graph Neural Networks. My responsibilities involved leading a small group of PhD students and MSc students who worked with me during this time.
    • Machine Learning
    • Graph Neural Networks
    • Recommender Systems
    • Research Supervisison
  • 2020.06 - 2020.10
    Research Intern
    MediaTek Research
    During this time, I worked on a Meta-Learning project based on an adaptation of the MAML algorithm for hierarchical learning. Our new algorithm, TreeMAML, achieved superior performance compared to similar meta-learning algorithms on NLP tasks by exploiting prior knowledge of the language tree.
    • Representation Learning
    • Meta-Learning
    • Computer Vision
    • Natural Language Processing
  • 2020.06 - 2020.10
    Research Intern
    MediaTek Research
    During this time, I worked on a Meta-Learning project based on an adaptation of the MAML algorithm for hierarchical learning. Our new algorithm, TreeMAML, achieved superior performance compared to similar meta-learning algorithms on NLP tasks by exploiting prior knowledge of the language tree.
    • Representation Learning
    • Meta-Learning
    • Computer Vision
    • Natural Language Processing
  • 2018.10 - 2022.04
    Postgraduate Researcher
    University College London
    My research involved computational modelling of a variety of unknown higher order functions in perturbation theory, describing quantum interactions within particle collisions. Subsequently, I developed a framework for fitting this approximate theory to datasets via Hessian methods to gain a handle on the theoretical uncertainties present in physical quantities calculated in quantum field theory.
    • Particle Physics
    • Theoretical Physics
    • Quantum Field Theory
    • Collider Physics

Projects

  • 2021.04 - 2021.05
    The Alan Turing Institute
    Intensive hackathon working with ML techniques to produce a podcast recommendation algorithm for a company named Entale.
    • Algorithmic Design
    • Recommender Systems
    • Machine Learning
  • 2019.01 - 2019.05
    UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)
    Proof of concept project to show that the calibration of images from 'shaky' cameras inside a fusion reactor could be automated using off-the-shelf CNN models.
    • Computer Vision
    • Nuclear Fusion
    • Machine Learning
  • 2017.10 - 2018.05
    Unification of the Standard Model
    Explored various extbf{unification group} candidates including $SU(5)$, $SO(10)$ and $E_{6}$ with and without supersymmetry.
    • Quantum Field Theory
    • Theoretical Physics
    • Group Theory
    • Mathematics

Volunteer

Education

  • 2018.10 - 2022.04

    London, UK

    PhD
    University College London
    Theoretical Physics
    • Quantum Field Theory
    • The Standard Model
    • Accelerator & Collider Phsyics

Awards

Skills

Machine Learning
PyTorch
Tensorflow
Numpy
Scikit-Learn
Pandas
Tensorboard
Programming
Python
FORTRAN
Git
C++
LaTeX
Bash
Swift
HTML
Mathematics
Linear Algebra
Physics
Quantum Mechanics
Quantum Computing
Quantum Information
Quantum Cryptography
Quantum Communication
Quantum Teleportation