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About me
I am a recent First Class graduate of Design Engineering MEng at Imperial College London, priding myself in both my technical ability as well as my understanding of user experience design. My experience working in teams means I can effectively communicate, including across different engineering disciplines, to aid in the smooth running of projects.

In my free time, I like to push myself physically, setting personal running records and achieving calisthenics challenges. I enjoy exploring new places and learning about different cultures, then cooking the food I have discovered for my friends and family.

This website was built from scratch (GitHub) using jQuery and Bootstrap.
Contact me
Person email: hannah@tinpot.co.uk • University email: mjk119@imperial.ac.uk

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Permia Sensing
I worked in a team of five students to develop a machine learning algorithm to detect red palm weevil larvae infestations in coconut trees. The project was a collaboration between Imperial College London and Permia Sensing. I helped organise our trip to Sri Lanka in April 2023, where we performed UX/UI studies, partook in a podcast and presented to the Coconut Research Institute. Skills: data cleaning, machine learning, AWS and UX Research
Master's Project
For my Master's project, I developed an AI model to detect mess, foreign objects and pet hair in car interiors for users of shared cars. I wrote a Python script to automate synthetic image data generation using Blender on Imperial's high performance computing cluster. The data was used to train an AlexNet model in parallel on the cluster using multiple GPUs. Skills: Blender, Python, High Performance Computing Cluster, AI, ML, computer vision.
An Ode To Cardboard
The challenge was to design and build an electromechanical machine using cardboard and an Arduino. I decided to make a four-legged bug for children that used Klann linkages, DC motors, an IR sensor and an ultrasonic sensor (for collision prevention). Skills: Cardboard prototyping, electromechanical design.
Quiznconquer
A continuation of a university project in which we built a web app. This is a four player game that aims to make learning facts and vocabulary fun. • GitHub repo • Website • Skills: Debugging techniques, configuring a DNS, opening and using an AWS instance, JavaScript, HTML, SQLite, CSS, UI/ UX.
Pose
A team-based university project designed to improve desk health. Our final concept measures back posture using pressure sensors in a seat-pad. This measurement is sent to a desk companion via Bluetooth which mimics the user’s posture, providing a gentle nudge. Skills: Textile-based high-fi prototyping, video producing, conducting interviews with users, product design, user-based design, circuit design. Thank you to: Robert Field for his renders.
A physical multiplayer board game for socially distanced households
WINNER OF THE IMPERIAL COLLEGE ROBOTICS SOCIETY HACKATHON 2021

The criteria for this hackathon was to design something that would improve your quality of life at home during lockdown.​ Our concept was a physical board game that enables people living in different households to play together as if they were in the same room. Skills: ideation, IoT, electronics, design communication, Fusion 360. Thank you to my teammate Sam Foong.


Engineering Change Computing Project
A minimal viable product to show how satellite data can be used to calculate the carbon content in a plot of land. This can be used by poor farmers to measure how much carbon they own to sell on a carbon credit market. Link to the GitHub repo can be found here. Skills: research, project management, team-work, leadership, UI/ UX design, Figma, docker, Flutter app development. Thank you to David Emoot, Wendy Meng, Kobi Keleman, William Wu and Oscar Zhou Chen for their work on the app; Terrence Chan for his AI algorithm. Special thanks to our supervisor Pedro Baiz.
Commend
WINNER OF THE DESIGN ENGINEERING SELECTED INNOVATION RECOGNITION (DESIRE) AWARD 2022

Commend aims to align sustainability of the rainforest with the needs of its inhabitants. We worked with the Amazon Protection Foundation to develop this concept for our Design Engineering Futures module. Thank you to my teammates James Skinner, Camilla Billari, Sibylle Rérolle and Naini Mandal. Our supervisor Thrishantha Nanayakkara.