Dr. Karla Parussel

Developed the device driver, API, sample code and GUI for a camera with single photon sensitivity using C++ with Qt (later removed), Opal Kelly, XDMA, Java, Matlab and Python on both Windows and Linux (PC, x64, x86, Raspberry Pi ARM64 and Jetson). I worked closely with hardware and firmware engineers using protocols such as I2C and SPI. I was also responsible for testing the system.

Refactored code developed by multiple Bioinformaticians using Java, Spring, Javascript, JQuery, C, C++, R. I gained hands-on experience in the field of Bioinformatics analysing FANTOM5 and ChIP-Seq data.

Developed an application in C#, called VerityMind that would analyse arbitrary text in terms of its emotional salience and polarity. The application read in, manipulated and generated RTF files. The text required extensive parsing, taking into account punctuation, parts of speech using WordNet, commonly used phrases, negation words etc.

I worked at the European Southern Observatory. I maintained software to access an Oracle database of source measurements used by astronomers to calibrate their instruments. Also developed an application from new, written using Java and Spring running from the command line. This queried an Oracle database containing data captured when monitoring the state of the antennas. The amount of data stored in the database was significant.

The aim of the project was to support skills development of young people to enhance their management of educational and social transitions in their lives. It used Second Life to provide heavily scripted virtual environments. A back-end server was implemented in Java to store this data using MySql. I wrote the technical sections for two grant applications submitted by other members of the department. I wrote a journal paper in my spare time that was accepted and published.

Research was a continuation of my PhD. I researched temporal processing using self-organising spiking neural networks, neuromodulation and also how neural networks can be used to provide signals to each other. The experiments were coded in C++ for the Linux operating system. I was also the project supervisor for two MSc students.

Employed in the R&TD department as part of a team to develop and debug existing fleet user management software. The role required me to work closely with the aeronautical engineers developing algorithms that they could use whilst drawing upon my software engineering knowledge and expertise. I designed and implemented envelope-estimation software for use in arbitrary dimensions, as well as curve- and distribution-fitting algorithms. During this time I also worked on the thesis of my PhD during the evenings.

Employed at the R&D department. Initially researched and developed new technologies in the areas of information visualisation, personal area networking, agent architectures and the classification of user navigation of web sites with a view to personalising content. The department then focused on the development and implementation of the voice equivalent of web sites. Consequently Netdecisions spawned off a new company to exclusively develop voice sites and which later became a market leader (Fluency voice).

I was employed as the first member of a new R&D department to add value to their existing software projects. Researched and developed agent technology and knowledge visualisation for use in knowledge discovery. A mark-up language was designed in which meta-data could be extended at run-time. This was visualised using automatically generated VRML. The agents were designed and developed for use on palmtops in wireless LANs. The code was written using 100% pure Java.

Evaluated the technical and computational plausibility of creating adaptive Internet applications and User Interfaces. The focus was on web personalisation, desktop agents and web-site chatterbots for more anthropomorphic Human Computer Interaction. This required sorting through the hype and buzzwords surrounding the existing products in the market place to see what was truly on offer. The role also involved network programming and Internet development using a variety of languages and tools.