Edward (Ned) Peter Booker

epb378@gmail.com
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Professional Interests

My career aim is to continuously develop my programming, managerial and scientific skills to provide the best problem solving possible, be it to develop state-of-the-art solution processed electronics, implement machine-learning algorithms to autonomously optimise procedures, or to facilitate communication with stake-holders at all levels, from new recruits and my superiors to public outreach.

Professional Skills

  • Group leadership: Organised and run weekly sub-group meetings of researcher, engineers and technicians within larger research groups
  • Project management: Managed research projects of up to eleven researchers which resulted in published research
  • International Collaboration: Projects collaborating with international partners tools such as Webex
  • Data Analysis and Presentation: Microsoft Office, Google docs, JMP, as well as more in-depth programming (see below)

Programming

  • Languages: C++, Python, SQL, html, MATLAB, Mathematica, LabVIEW, shell
  • Programming Environments: Windows, Linux, MacOS, git, Spyder, Pycharm, github, gitlab
  • Python Libraries: Pytorch, NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, Flask, Django, googlecloud

For examples of some recent projects I have carried out please see my leaf analyser and FRET simulator demos.

Communication

  • Technical Writing: Five first author and nine co-authored research research articles
  • Public Speaking and Presentations: Presented my research at academic conferences with over many oral presentations and several poster presentations
  • Public Outreach: Public presentations, Popular science articles, Event organisation

Teaching and management

  • Class teaching: Ran workshops and tutorials to groups of two to twelve students
  • Mentoring: Supervised several undergraduate and graduate students in the day-to-day execution of research projects and helped them to prepare reports
  • Laboratory demonstration: Demonstrated optoelectronic device testing and scanning electron microscopy techniques to small groups of graduate students