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Theoretical Physicist | AI Developer

Matthew Ward

PhD candidate in theoretical particle physics with experience developing machine learning algorithms for clinical research. Exploring opportunities to apply this experience to quantum error correction (QEC) and the development of fault-tolerant quantum computers.

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At a Glance

Education

    University of Southampton, 2019–2027 (Part-Time)
    PhD Physics "Holographic Descriptions of Gauge Dynamics" (expected)
    Lancaster University, 2013–2017
    MSci Theoretical Physics with Mathematics (First Class Honours)

Experience

    University Hospital Southampton, 2019–Present
    Medical Physicist (AI Development), Clinical Scientific Computing Group
    University Hospitals Birmingham, 2017–2019
    Junior Research Physicist, Radiotherapy Physics

Skills

Current Projects

Brane Embeddings in Finite-Temp QCD
The embedding of D7 branes in a AdS-Schwarzchild background for different temperatures as a function of energy. In this case, a warped black hole breaks the SO(6) symmetry explicitly, producing either a first or second order quark phase transition.
Monte-Carlo simulation for surface dice clustering
Monte Carlo simulation arranging n level-2 Likert scores amongst (N-n) level-1 scores, where the red dashed line indicates the observed clustering from our dataset according to the surface dice metric.