Events and Talks

2016

Invited talk at Oxford University e-Science Centre, “Complex System Simulations on GPUs: Accelerating network flow simulations of transport systems.”, MAny core computing seminar series.
Accepted talk at Modelling World 2016, “Alternative GPU friendly assignment algorithms” given by Paul Richmond and Peter Heywood as part of the Acclerating Models session.

Invited Presentation to ATKINS, “GPU Computing”
Presentation at EMIT 2015 Conference, “Complex system simulations on the GPU” (given by Peter Heywood on my behalf)
Presentation at the GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, California USA Recording pdf

Installation of Pedestrian Simulation Demonstrator at the Transport Systems Catapult, June 2014 News Link
Invited talk at DNVGL, “Emerging Accelerator Architectures with Application to Complex Systems Simulation”, July 2014
Invited talk at Agents and Simulated Reality Group in DFKI Saarbruecken, “Complex Systems Simulation on Emerging Parallel Architectures”, July 2014
Poster at Harmony COMBINE, “The SpineML toolchain: Enabling computational neuroscience through flexible tools for creating, sharing, and simulating neural models”, Manchester (UK), July 2014

Poster at SfN (Presented by Alex Cope), “The SpineML toolchain for the creation of spiking neural networks”, San Diego, November 2013
Poster Presented at CIBD, “Osteolytica: Osteolytic Lesion Analysis Software”, Miami, November 2013
Poster Presented at Remote Sensing from Small Unmanned Aerial Systems, “A UAV for RIver Habitat Surveys”, Worcester, July 2013
Second place winner of SET for Britain 2013 Engineering category at the House of Commons EPSRC News article, March 2013 News Link

Invited Keynote Speaker at Journees Francophones sur les Systemes Multi-Agents (JFSMA 2012), “Massive scale agent based simulation with FLAME GPU”, Le-Havre, France 2012
Poster Presented at eFUTURES Building Bridges to Brains, “A toolchain for creation of spiking neural networks utilising NineML - a tool independent XML model description format”, Edinburgh, November 2012
Invited Speaker at MESAS Seminar Series, “Massive scale agent based simulation with FLAME GPU”, August 2012
Invitation to join the internal stakeholder group for the Faculty of Engineering Strategy, July 2012
Awarded a place on the Sheffield Crucible program residential workshops, Chesterfield, March, May and July 2012
Poster at the GPU Technology Conference (Presented by Twin Karmakharm), “High Performance Pedestrian Multi-Simulation Using a GPU Cluster”, San Jose, 14-17th May 2012
Invited Speaker at HPC@Sheffield, “Agent based simulation using CUDA”, Sheffield, April 2012
Winner of Tony Atkinson Award, “Ideas to Enterprise” Group Project (SoCab - Social Enterprise Taxi Business Proposal), Sheffield Enterprise School, March 2012
Invited Speaker, “Making the most out of my postdoc”, Humanities Research Institute Sheffield, 29th March 2012

FLAME GPU Demonstration (by Twin Karmakharm), UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2011, York
Invited Talk at University of Southampton (Intelligence, Agent, Multimedia Group) “Massive Scale Agent Based Simulation with FLAME GPU”, 14th July 2011
Invited Demonstrator at BAE Technology Conference, “Innovations Live”, London, 26th May 2011

Poster Presented at the GPU Technology Conference, “High Performance Agent-Based Simulation with FLAME for the GPU”, San Jose, September 2010 poster
Workshop Organiser Talk Given, “Future Research Directions in Agent Based Modelling”, University of Leeds 15th June 2010
Software Demonstration, “FLAME simulating Large Populations of Agents on Parallel Platforms”, AAMAS 2010 Demos Session, Toronto, Canada, May 2010
Awarded PhD after minor corrections, Thesis Title: Flexible High Performance Agent Based Modelling on Graphics Card Hardware

Invitation to Attend a Drinks Reception at the Home Office with Chief Scientific Advisor to the Home Office (Paul Wiles), London, December 2009
Poster and Demonstration and the RCUK eScience All Hands Conference, Oxford, December 7-9th 2009
Invited Talk at the Austrian Institute of Technology (Mobility Group), Vienna, December 3rd 2009, “Flexible Agent Based Simulation for Pedestrian Modelling on GPU Hardware”
INSTINCT Technology Showcase Event, November 2009
Poster Presented at AAMAS 2009 Conference, “A High Performance Agent Based Modelling Framework on Graphics Card Hardware with CUDA”

Poster Presented, “GPU Agent Based Frameworks for Real Time Simulation and Rendering of Massive Populations”, Game Republic Student Showcase Poster, Bradford April 2008

Membership of the STEMNET Science and Engineering Ambassador (SEA) Program
Online Exhbition, “Java Boids Simulator”, WEB3DART 2007 Exhibition, Web3D Symposium, the 12th International Conference on 3D Web Technology, April 15-18, 2007 University of Perugia, Umbria, Italy
e- Seminar Talk, “GIS and Drug Dealing”, Invited Talk for the Global WUN GIS Acadamy, ICOSS, Sheffield

Demonstration, “Agent Based Modelling 2006”, Java Boids simulator for presentation at the Royal Society London