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📖 I’m currently studying as a 2nd-year postgraduate researcher in (Astro)physics at the University of Southampton (June 2024).

🌬️ My PhD research is on emulating complex and imperfect astrophysical systems for accretion disk winds in quasars. This is for the rapid emulation of the Radiative Transfer Code, 'Python' (coded in C).

• My code is called 'Speculate' and is accessible through the linked GitHub repository. Speculate currently is a PCA Gaussian Process Emulator, where 'Python' spectral data is reduced in dimensions, and the weight space is interpolated to mimic any region not defined by a grid point. The 4-year project aims to introduce novel methods to accurately match 30+ physical parameters from physically imperfect simulations (due to incorrect or missing theories) to real observational data. More info can be found in Speculate's cookbook.

📈 I'm also developing as a hobby my own private repository code, Silvanus, a quantitative trading/backtesting script. I spend my free time self-learning quantitative finance, transferring my Astro, Maths and Statistics education and research to new datasets pulled from the Bloomberg terminal.