My name is Maximillian Philip Dupenois1 and I am a PhD student in the College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences at the University of Exeter. I graduated from this same university with a BSc (hons) in 2006 and worked in the web software industry till 2008 when I started my PhD.
My research here has concerned computing spatial regions of point-like phenomena and examining the ways in which they can undergo change. Recently I have been looking at using optimisation tools such as genetic algorithms to see if there are ways of reducing the scope of possible parameter values for footprint methods2.
I do quite a lot of work with Kent McClymont concerning using games as a method of teaching programming. More information on these can be found on the right under projects3.
Besides the work with Kent and my own research I have delivered workshops for the university in:
1I have great fun filling out forms, I tend to run out of spaces for the characters.
2Methods that return regions for a given point set.
3Toroid wars and Games:Exeter.