Josh Wheeler

Josh Wheeler

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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About

Working with Ascent to build a next-generation Point-of-Sale platform that streamlines new product applications for credit unions and community banks in the US.

Interests:
- Researching ML and AI alignment
- Investigating legal frameworks for controlling A(G)I development
- Creating tools to enhance the quality of life for individuals

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Experience

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    Ascent Platform

    Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

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    Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

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    St. Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom

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    St. Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom

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    St. Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom

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    Manchester, England, United Kingdom

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    St. Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom

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    Warwick, England, United Kingdom

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    Stockport, England, United Kingdom

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    Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Education

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    - Awarded a summer scholarship by the University of St Andrews to study at Humboldt University as part of their HUWISU program.

    - Critically assessed the opportunities and risks presented by AI technologies from social, political and legal science perspectives.

    - Identified specific challenges algorithmic systems pose to the existing legal framework.

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Volunteer Experience

Courses

  • Robotics and Autonomous Systems : Liverpool University (2018)

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Projects

  • Investigating Human Intention Recognition Algorithms based on Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Assistive Action Planning

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    - Self-proposed master's dissertation project investigating current SOTA inverse reinforcement learning algorithms for intention recognition.

    - This submission was worth 50% of my degree and I achieved a 19.5/20 score (first class), resulting in a fully funded PhD offer from the University of St Andrews.

  • Distributed File Sharing Software

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    - Produced Java software package to share files across a LAN using web sockets with binary/character streams.

    - Implemented multicast communication for service discovery

    - Awarded 1st class mark.

  • STACSHACK 2021: 007 Hackathon Team Project

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    In our 24hr student-run university hackathon, we created a website for automatically generating 007 pickup lines through the use of a trained GPT-2 deep neural network, using a dataset of manually scraped James Bond quotes.

    Please see our video presentation on what this is and how we developed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjFQuWmxFrI&t=177s&ab_channel=SamuelHarris

    To try out our AI, see this website: http://stacshack-2021.herokuapp.com/

  • PAWS-FOR-ADVENTURE

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    - Created an automated business management software package to handle bookings, invoicing and staff scheduling for a dog walking company.

    - Achieved 98% mark.

  • Population Simulation Model

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    - Created software to simulate the life cycle of a greenfly population using information provided by researchers.

    - Awarded A* grade.

Honors & Awards

  • Deans' List Award (2019/2020) (2020/2021) (2021/2022) (2022/2023)

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    Achieve an average grade of at least 16.5 (equivalent to a 1st) over the past academic year

  • StacsHack 007, with Bloomberg & American Express Hackiest Hack Prize

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    Build something that's over-the-top, over-engineered, and held together with Sellotape and bits of string... use your imagination!

  • Founding member of St Andrews Google Developer Student Club

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  • Facebook & Ireland Hack 2020

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    Our team tied 2nd place in the 2020 Facebook & Ireland Hackathon. Only 80 students were selected by Facebook from across the UK & Ireland to compete in the event.

  • EPQ Award

    Wilmslow High School

    Sixth Form award for independent research into the morality of using autonomous systems for warfare and investigating how AI has permeated through society.

  • The Duke Of Edinburgh's Award - Gold Level

    Duke Of Edinburgh's Award

  • FA Level 1 Football Referee

    Football Association

  • County level Football

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