{"id":15,"date":"2014-07-21T13:33:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T13:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgesdgordon.com\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2025-01-24T10:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T10:09:10","slug":"cv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.georgesdgordon.com\/?page_id=15","title":{"rendered":"CV"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Employment<\/h2>\n<div class=\"more-less\">\n<div class=\"more-block\">\n<p>Feb. 2021 onwards \u2014&nbsp;<strong>UKRI Future Leaders Fellow<\/strong>, <em>The University of Nottingham<\/em>, UK<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Received a 4-year \u00a31.2 million fellowship to develop novel optical fibre endoscopes using metasurfaces to improve detection of hard-to-reach cancers such as pancreatic and ovarian.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/news\/ukri-invests-109-million-in-future-leaders\/\">UKRI Press Release<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nottingham.ac.uk\/news\/future-leaders\">UoN Press Release<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"more-less\">\n<div class=\"more-block\">\n<p>Jan. 2022 \u2013 present \u2014&nbsp;<strong>Associate Professor<\/strong>, <em>The University of Nottingham<\/em>, UK<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"more-less\">\n<div class=\"more-block\">\n<p>Apr. 2019 \u2013 Dec. 2021 \u2014&nbsp;<strong>Assistant Professor<\/strong>, <em>The University of Nottingham<\/em>, UK<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"more-less\">\n<div class=\"more-block\">\n<p>Oct. 2016 \u2013 Mar. 2019 \u2014&nbsp;<strong>Postdoctoral Research Associate<\/strong>, <em>The University of Cambridge<\/em>, UK<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Named researcher on CRUK Multidisciplinary Project Award entitled &#8220;Multidimensional Molecular Imaging for Early Cancer Diagnosis&#8221; to develop and test holographic optical fibre endoscope.<\/li>\n<li>Collaboration between Engineering, Physics, CRUK Cambridge Institute and MRC Cancer Unit.<\/li>\n<li>Spun out from project I initiated as a Research Fellow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"more-less\">\n<div class=\"more-block\">\n<p>Oct. 2013 \u2013 Sep. 2016 \u2014&nbsp;<strong>Henslow Research Fellow<\/strong>, <em>The University of Cambridge<\/em>, UK<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Selected from over a hundred applicants to be awarded&nbsp;a 3-year stipendiary fellowship at St. Edmund&#8217;s College, University of Cambridge, funded by the Cambridge Philosophical Society.<\/li>\n<li>Self-directed and independent research programme on cutting-edge applications of&nbsp;holographic modal control of optical fibres.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"more-less\">\n<div class=\"more-block\">\n<p>Jun. 2013 \u2013&nbsp;Sep. 2013 \u2014&nbsp;<strong>Postdoctoral&nbsp;Research Associate<\/strong>, <em>The University of Cambridge<\/em>, UK<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Designed and conducted experiments in holographic modal control of multimode optical fibres for telecommunications applications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"more-less\">\n<div class=\"more-block\">\n<p>Feb. 2009 \u2013 Sep. 2009 \u2014&nbsp;<strong>Software Engineer,&nbsp;<\/strong><em>Taste Technologies Ltd.<\/em>, Auckland, New Zealand<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Developed commercial software to operate industrial fruit sorting equipment.<\/li>\n<li>Used C++ Visual Studio .NET and C extensively.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"more-less\">\n<div class=\"more-block\">\n<p>Nov. 2008 \u2013 Mar. 2009 \u2014 <strong>Research Assistant in Signal and Image Processing<\/strong>,<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><em>The University of Auckland<\/em>, New Zealand<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Conducted research on shape recognition algorithms and the effect of pixellation on Fourier analysis of shapes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"more-less\">\n<div class=\"more-block\">\n<p>Jan. 2008 \u2013 Feb. 2008 \u2014 <strong>Research Assistant in Optical Fibre&nbsp;Communication Systems<\/strong>, <em>The University of Sydney<\/em>, Australia<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Worked in the Centre for Ultra-high Bandwidth Devices in Optical Systems (CUDOS).<\/li>\n<li>From my 8-week summer internship I produced a paper demonstrating a modified Mach-Zehnder Modulator as a novel ultra-high bit rate data transmitter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Education<\/h2>\n<div class=\"more-less\">\n<div class=\"more-block\">\n<p>2009 \u2013 2013 \u2014&nbsp;<strong>Ph.D. in Engineering<\/strong>, <em>The University of Cambridge<\/em>, UK.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ph.D. thesis, entitled, &#8220;Design of Indoor Communication Infrastructure for Ultra-high&nbsp;Capacity Next Generation Wireless Services&#8221;,&nbsp;looked at technologies for advanced distributed antenna systems that are set to enable&nbsp;next-generation wireless networks to provide the ultra-high speeds demanded by users.<\/li>\n<li>Supported&nbsp;by a full scholarship from the Royal Society of New Zealand and the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"more-less\">\n<div class=\"more-block\">\n<p>2005 \u2013 2008 \u2014&nbsp;<strong>Bachelor of Engineering (Hons.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering,&nbsp;<\/strong><em>The University of Auckland<\/em>, New Zealand.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Achieved first class honours with second highest overall grades from a class of 100<\/li>\n<li>Maurice Paykel Undergraduate Scholarship<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Grants and Prizes<\/h2>\n<div class=\"more-less\">\n<div class=\"more-block\">\nFeb. 2021 \u2014 <strong>Future Leaders Fellowship<\/strong>, <em>UKRI<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Received a 4-year \u00a31.2 million fellowship to develop novel optical fibre endoscopes using metasurfaces to improve detection of hard-to-reach cancers such as pancreatic and ovarian.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/news\/ukri-invests-109-million-in-future-leaders\/\">UKRI Press Release<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nottingham.ac.uk\/news\/future-leaders\">UoN Press Release<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"more-less\">\n<div class=\"more-block\">\nApr. 2021 \u2014 <strong>Early Detection of Pancreatic Cancer Innovation Sandpit Award<\/strong>, <em>Cancer Research UK<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Co-PI of a team based at Swansea, Oxford, Glasgow and Nottinghtm for a \u00a3100,000 grant (&#8220;RETHOMS: Real-time high-sensitivity optrode metabolic sensor for pancreatic cyst fluids&#8221;) to develop a novel electro-optic sensing modality for improved analysis of pancreatic cyst fluid for early cancer detection.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancerresearchuk.org\/sites\/default\/files\/pancreatic_cancer_sandpit_report_april2021.pdf\">CRUK Press Release<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"more-less\">\n<div class=\"more-block\">\n<p>Apr. 2017 \u2014 <strong>Pioneer Award<\/strong>, <em>Cancer Research UK<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Co-PI with Dr. Sarah Bohndiek of \u00a3175,800 grant (&#8220;Shedding light on cancer using nanoplasmonic metapixels&#8221;) to develop nanostructured plasmonic metasurfaces as optical filters for multimodal cancer imaging.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"more-less\">\n<div class=\"more-block\">\n<p>Feb. 2016 \u2014 <strong>Pump Prime Grant<\/strong>, <em>Cambridge Cancer Centre Early Detection Programme<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Co-PI with Dr. Sarah Bohndiek, Prof. Tim Wilkinson and Prof. Rebecca Fitzgerald of internally-funded \u00a3100,000 grant (&#8220;Low-cost wide-field holographic capsule endoscopy for early detection of oesophageal cancer&#8221;) to build a low-cost phase-imaging capsule endoscope for early detection of oesophageal cancer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"more-less\">\n<div class=\"more-block\">\n<p>Sep. 2014 \u2014 <strong>Pump Prime Grant<\/strong>, <em>Cambridge Cancer Centre<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Co-PI with Dr. Sarah Bohndiek and Prof. Tim Wilkinson of \u00a359,400 internally-funded grant (&#8220;A Digital Holographic Endoscope for Early Cancer Detection&#8221;) to build a dual-polarisation holographic optical fibre endoscope.<\/li>\n<li>Led on to CRUK Multidisciplinary Project Award.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"more-less\">\n<div class=\"more-block\">\n<p>Mar. 2013 \u2014 <strong>STEM for Britain Bronze Award<\/strong>, <em>The UK Parliamentary and Scientific Committee<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Third place prize at the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) for Britain annual poster contest held at the House of Commons.<\/li>\n<li>Selected from 59 short-listed candidates from engineering departments across&nbsp;the UK.<\/li>\n<li>Awarded a cash prize of \u00a31000 for poster entitled,&nbsp;&#8220;Mode-Division Multiplexing for Ultra-fast Optical Fibre Communication.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"more-less\">\n<div class=\"more-block\">\n<p>Oct. 2009 \u2014 <strong>Rutherford Memorial Scholarship, <em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><em>Royal Society of New Zealand<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Awarded one of two prestigious scholarships, worth \u00a380,000, to cover the full cost of&nbsp;undertaking a Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"more-less\">\n<div class=\"more-block\">\n<p>Dec. 2009 \u2014 <strong>IEEE Member and Geographic Activities Board GOLD Achievement Award,&nbsp;<\/strong><em>The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One of six recipients of this award, which I received for, &#8220;exceptional leadership and outstanding contributions to the development of the IEEE GOLDRush Newsletter&#8221; during my time as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE GOLDRush newsletter, a volunteer newsletter sent to 30,000 recent engineering graduates worldwide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"more-less\">\n<div class=\"more-block\">\n<p>Aug. 2007 \u2014 <strong>Maurice Paykel Undergraduate Scholarship<\/strong>,<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><em>The University of Auckland and Fisher &amp; Paykel Appliances<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One of four recipients of this scholarship, worth \u00a31000, awarded to New Zealand-based engineering students to assist them with their undergraduate studies.<\/li>\n<li>Selection criteria include, &#8220;academic merit, leadership qualities, communication skills, community involvement.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Leadership Activities<\/h2>\n<div class=\"more-less\">\n<div class=\"more-block\">\n<p>Jun. 2010 \u2013 May 2011 \u2014&nbsp;<strong>Middle Combination Room (MCR) President<\/strong>,&nbsp;<em>Trinity College, The University of Cambridge<\/em>, UK<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>President of the College&#8217;s society for graduate students.<\/li>\n<li>Represented and organised&nbsp;events for over 400 graduate students and liaised with the University on their behalf.<\/li>\n<li>Lead&nbsp;a committee of 11 people.<\/li>\n<li>Key achievements:&nbsp;overhauled the constitution; introduced an online dinner booking system and&nbsp;an online voting system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"more-less\">\n<div class=\"more-block\">\n<p>Jan. 2009 \u2013 Dec. 2009 \u2014&nbsp;<strong>Editor in Chief of IEEE GOLDRush Newsletter<\/strong>,&nbsp;<em>The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Responsible for writing, editing and producing&nbsp;an online&nbsp;newsletter distributed to 30,000 recent engineering graduates worldwide.<\/li>\n<li>Lead&nbsp;a committee of 15 people around the world via email and Skype.<\/li>\n<li>Key achievements: instituted a new online submission and peer-review system&nbsp;to cope with large numbers of submissions; moved the publication onto Facebook and Twitter to broaden reach.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"more-less\">\n<div class=\"more-block\">\n<p>Jan. 2007 \u2013 Dec. 2008 \u2014 <strong>Chair of the University of Auckland IEEE Student Branch<\/strong>, <em>The University of Auckland<\/em>, New Zealand<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Represented and organised&nbsp;events for the 220 student members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers at the University of Auckland.<\/li>\n<li>Lead&nbsp;a committee of 13&nbsp;people.<\/li>\n<li>Key achievements: organised&nbsp;an interviews workshop involving 20 industry representatives and 70 students; increased branch membership by 40%; helped the branch to win two international IEEE awards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Teaching<\/h2>\n<div class=\"more-less\">\n<div class=\"more-block\">\n<p>Mar. 2019 &#8211; Jun. 2021 \u2014&nbsp;<strong>Module convenor<\/strong>, <em>Artificial Intelligent and Intelligent Systems<\/em>,&nbsp;The University of Nottinham, UK<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Developed new module from scratch<\/li>\n<li>Created 9 x 2-hour lectures and 6 x 2-hour labs covering the following topics:\n<ul>\n<li>Decision trees and random forests<\/li>\n<li>Information entropy<\/li>\n<li>Support Vector Machines<\/li>\n<li>Clustering (k-means, hierarchical, density)<\/li>\n<li>Reinforcement learning and Q-learning<\/li>\n<li>Bayesian inference and Bayesian networks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Led team of 2 academics and 4 teaching assistants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"more-less\">\n<div class=\"more-block\">\n<p>Mar. 2010 \u2013 Jun. 2015 \u2014&nbsp;<strong>Supervisor\/Tutor<\/strong>, <em>Photonic Technology<\/em>,&nbsp;The University of Cambridge, UK<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Run&nbsp;biweekly&nbsp;supervisions (tutorials in groups of two) for third-year undergraduate engineering students.<\/li>\n<li>Course covers&nbsp;optical fibres and photonic components including light emitting diodes, laser diodes, photodiodes and solar cells.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"more-less\">\n<div class=\"more-block\">\n<p>Oct. 2011 \u2013 Jun. 2014 \u2014&nbsp;<strong>Supervisor\/Tutor<\/strong>,&nbsp;<em>Electrical and Information Engineering<\/em>,&nbsp;The University of Cambridge, UK<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Run weekly&nbsp;supervisions (tutorials in groups of two) for first-year undergraduate engineering students on a year-long introductory course.<\/li>\n<li>Course covers&nbsp;physical principles of electronics, electromagnetics, linear circuits and devices, AC power, digital circuits and information processing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"more-less\">\n<div class=\"more-block\">\n<p>Feb. 2010 \u2013 Mar. 2012 \u2014&nbsp;<strong>Laboratory Demonstrator<\/strong>,&nbsp;<em>Semiconductor Engineering and Photonic Technology<\/em>,&nbsp;The University of Cambridge, UK<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Assisted third-year undergraduate students to complete two laboratory exercises on Schottky diodes and semiconductor lasers.<\/li>\n<li>Marked lab reports, interviewed and graded students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"more-less\">\n<div class=\"more-block\">\n<p>Feb. 2008 \u2013 Jun. 2008 \u2014&nbsp;<strong>Teaching Assistant<\/strong>,&nbsp;<em>Electronics<\/em>,&nbsp;The University of Auckland, New Zealand<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Helped second-year undergraduate students to understand and construct electrical circuits involving operation amplifiers in a laboratory environment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Outreach and Engagement<\/h2>\n<div class=\"more-less\">\n<div class=\"more-block\">2018 \u2013 <strong>Cambridge Science Festival Volunteer<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Helped design physics demonstrations for public engagement.<\/li>\n<li>Explained principles of advanced imaging, from photoacoustic imaging to polarimetry, to a broad public audience, ranging from young children to the elderly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"more-less\">\n<div class=\"more-block\">2018 \u2013 <strong>RAEng Headstart Programme Volunteer<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Volunteered on RAEng sponsored programme for high-achieving sixth-form students considering studying Engineering at Cambridge.<\/li>\n<li>Gave tours of cleanrooms, laboratories and explained latest research on advanced endoscopic imaging.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employment Feb. 2021 onwards \u2014&nbsp;UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, The University of Nottingham, UK Received a 4-year \u00a31.2 million fellowship to develop novel optical fibre endoscopes using metasurfaces to improve detection of hard-to-reach cancers such as pancreatic and ovarian. 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