Profile – Coding Zone

Education:

I grew up in York so I went to school there.
Primary: Hempland Primary School
Secondary: Archbishop Holgates School
Sixth Form: Huntington Scholl

Then I moved to Bristol to go to University
Qualifications:

GSCE: Maths, English Language, English Literature, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, History, Geography, Media Studies, ICT, RE

A Levels: Maths, Chemistry, History
AS Further Maths, AS Applied ICT

MEng Computer Science
Work History:

My main is studying for my PhD, I also do some teaching of undergraduates on the side.
Other than that I’ve done some volunteer work in museums and FoodCycle who aim to reduce food waste by cooking meals for people who need them.
Current Job:

PhD Candidate

About Me:

I’m a PhD student in Bristol.
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I live in Bristol with my boyfriend. In my spare time I like to cook, paddleboard and play video games. I wish I had a cat, but out flat is too small.
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I’m a PhD student at the University of Bristol. I work in Computer Vision which involves teaching computers how to work out what is in an image or a video. In my last work I got a computer to watch lots of YouTube videos of people cooking and tried to get it to work out the important bits and how those bits should be done.
My Typical Day:

I get up, do some exercise, get some breakfast and go to my computer. Most days I spend in front of my computer so I make sure to have plenty of breaks.
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What I like about my job is that it can be very different on different days. Some days I write code – a language which tells the computer what to do, other days I write about what I’ve learnt so other people can learn it. I also read about what other people working on similar things have learnt about recently. During school time I sometimes teach students at university. A few months ago we had to spend some time at work playing board games to get videos to be able to teach a computer about what we were doing.

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Hazel Doughty