Student Showcase

Investigating the strength of co-committal relationships in git repositories

Do those that change together stay together? Research into the strength and weaknesses of inferred component relationships based upon the frequency of co-committal in the repository.

The importance of language choice and use in code review feedback for junior developers

An approach to score (and then offer improvemnent suggestions) to those providing code review commentary to junior developers to help build supportive and formative feedback.

A standalone FaaS platform and pipeline using Docker

A standalone FaaS platform with web interface, packaging functions into Docker containers for multiple languages and deploying and exposing endpoints via k8s.

An app to help families build healthy habits to promote cardiovascular wellbeing

In collaboration with a PhD researcher (Bridie Kemp) in the School of Nursing and Midwifery. Published work in the European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing

A DSL and tooling to generically represent evolutionary models from git, svn and cvs in a non-lossy and exchangeable format

A research project to define and implement a domain-specific language to represent changes held in SCM metadata.

Includes tooling and implementations to convert to and from leading formats.

Released as open source and freely available, now being used for SE research.

A computer vision and maching learning solution to jewelry sizing

A working ML CV pipeline for ring sizing with reference images from consumer-quality cameras.

Now an award-winning startup and commercial business.

A custom pod autoscaler for kubernetes clusters

An open source highly customisable custom pod autoscaler for use in kubernetes clusters. Capable of advanced configuration including attaching to ML patterns of demand and load.

Thanks to BT Research for their input into this project and validation.

Now a successful and current open source project.

An affordable upper-limb prosthetic calibration and training system for use in LMICs

An open-source highly affordable implementation using cheap hardware for assessment, calibration and training of upper-limb prosthetics.

Small Raspberry Pi (3B and zero) cluster for education and demonstration

Creating a Raspberry Pi based cluster for education and demonstration.

The Small Portable Education Cluster (SPEC) has 96 cores and is setup for clustered/MPI operation.

Performance Comparison of Java Spring Boot on Docker Containers on Multiple Environments Including Cloud Providers

A research project comparing environmental implementation impact on performance for Java Spring boot applications, including common cloud providers.

A Javascript implementation trailer physics simulator

A Javascript implementation of a trailer physics and maneuvering simialator.

A Javascript implementation of a 2D physics engine including examples

A detailed implementation of a 2D physics engine in Javascript including numerous examples.

Highly configurable and extensible so suitable for use as a plug-in for games or other simulations.