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:::{profile} Thao Do
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roles:
    Book Dash participant (June 2024)
github: ThaoDo02
orcid: 0000-0002-0015-892X
bio: |
    Thao is a PhD researcher at the University of Bath, working at the intersection of technology, society, and human rights. Her research focuses on the societal, ethical, and governance implications of AI systems in high-risk social domains, particularly human trafficking, exploitation, and children’s interactions with generative AI. She draws on interdisciplinary approaches spanning sociology, AI ethics, development studies, and digital governance to examine how AI technologies are shaped by their social contexts and how more just, accountable, and human rights-based models of AI can be realised in practice. Thao was part of the 2022 PhD Enrichment cohort at the Alan Turing Institute.
highlights: |
    I contributed one chapter “Lesson & Curriculum Development” together with Gule Saman and Denise Bianco (June 2024)
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    "Putting the last first" (Robert Chamber). I am committed to understanding how AI systems intersect with lived realities, structural inequalities, and human vulnerability, and to promoting approaches that centre dignity, agency, and justice. I believe research is most meaningful when it supports communities, challenges harmful assumptions, and contributes to building technologies that respect and empower the people they affect.

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:::{profile} Tim Powell
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twitter: mrtimpowell
bio: |
    Tim is an Astrophysicist turned Research Software Engineer, who has always had a passion for sharing science.
    From attending public lectures and getting involved as an attendee at outreach events based around Cambridge as a teenager to building a miniature supercomputer, Tim has a long history of outreach activities.

    Whilst at university Tim became a STEM Ambassador with the Physics Society, where he used the tools provided to introduce groups of children to scientific concepts.
    Tim also participated in 4 [British Science Weeks](https://www.britishscienceweek.org/) showcasing many different aspects of Physics and Remote Sensing.

    When Tim joined STFC's Hartree Centre he built a miniature supercomputer, called [HPiC](https://blog.hartree.ac.uk/wordpress/?p=361).
    HPiC is the Hartree Centre’s Raspberry Pi Cluster.
    It was created to demonstrate supercomputing techniques and show some of the expertise of the Hartree Centre.
    HPiC has been showcased at numerous [technical conferences](https://twitter.com/MrTimPowell/status/1062098668403245058) and [public outreach events](https://twitter.com/HartreeCentre/status/1055029464592273408) not just across the UK but also internationally.

    As well as presenting technical posters and talks at various conferences Tim also enjoys taking his experience of outreach and presenting what he has learnt and how that is applicable to teaching.
    Tim presented at the ISC 2019 HPC Education and Training for Emerging Technologies Workshop and was on [SIGHPC](https://sighpceducation.acm.org/) Best Practices for HPC Training and Education Panel at Supercomputing 2019.

    One of Tim's proudest projects  was collaborating with Benjamin Mummery on a LEGO version of the Hartree Centre's iconic supercomputer [Scafell Pike](https://twitter.com/HartreeCentre/status/1189145621564968963)!
highlights: |
    I collaborated with a group of researchers from The Alan Turing Institute to draft a chapter of scientific outreach.
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:::{profile} Timothy Sum Hon Mun
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roles: |
    Book Dash Participant (2022)
github: timothy22000
twitter: timothy22000
orcid: 0000-0003-3085-3664
bio: |
    Former software engineer at a startup and former actuary at an insurance company. My research interests are on the intersection of AI with different areas such as healthcare and finance as well as to improve their reliability and interoperability when being deployed. I am also more recently interested in open science, open source collaboration, and reproducible research. My current research work involves the application of deep learning to develop novel predictive biomarkers of tumour response using real-world imaging data of soft-tissue sarcomas.  My research is funded as part of the international Sarcoma Accelerator, funded by Cancer Research UK, which will collect one of the largest repositories of multi-center sarcoma datasets.
highlights: |
    Working together with the translation team (Batool, Iman, Alejandro), having interesting discussions with other participants of the Book Dash on different topics, contributing to the automation of the TW release workflow, and meeting Batool again!
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    Memorable experience with the Turing Way and Scriberia!! Great to have a chance to attend the Book Dash and collaborate with so many talented individuals.
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