Hello, I’m Tom.
I am a DPhil student at the Mathematical Institute, in the University of Oxford. I am a member of the Centre for Topological Data Analysis where I am jointly supervised by Heather Harrington and Ulrike Tillmann.
My academic interests lie predominantly in applied algebraic topology, stochastic topology and machine learning. In my spare time, I’m a keen rock climber, scuba diver and bread baker.
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Research
The focus of my research to date is understanding the role that directionality can play in traditional, topological data analysis pipelines. Directed graphs arise naturally in a range of applications; the de facto TDA approach is to ignore the direction of each edge and study the underlying undirected graph. Naturally, this loses a lot of information which might be useful. If you’d like to read more about this work, please have a look at my research page.
Blog
I am also an enthusiastic software developer, with a particular interest and professional experience in web development. My blog contains write-ups for some of my more interesting side-projects, alongside articles discussing development tools I like, and my other hobbies. For more recent work and source code, head over to my GitHub.