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Dr Louise Knight

Dr Louise Knight

Lecturer
Director of Recruitment and Admissions

Email
knightl2@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 (0)29 2251 0951
Campuses
2.61, Abacws, Senghennydd Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF24 4AG

Overview

I am a lecturer at the National Software Academy, School of Computer Science & Informatics, teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate modules in Java and performance & scalability. Prior to this, I was a Research Assistant on the EU Horizon 2020-funded SWITCH project, investigating how the SWITCH workbench could be adapted to support CUDA through experiments on Amazon Web Services.

My PhD project was in the interdisciplinary field of Bioinformatics. I implemented methods for finding molecular co-evolution on CUDA-enabled graphics cards, allowing these methods to be used on the entire human proteome for the first time.

Biography

I have been a Lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Informatics since 2018, teaching in the National Software Academy as part of our BSc and MSc programmes. Prior to this, I worked for a few months as a Teacher at Cardiff University, which involved some lecturing (mostly first-year BSc Java) and also marking courseworks and exams.

After completing my PhD in Cardiff in 2017, I worked briefly as a Research Assistant on the EU Horizon 2020-funded SWITCH project, doing experiments involving getting the CUDA code I wrote during my PhD to work on Amazon Web Services (AWS) instances, and investigating how the SWITCH workbench could support CUDA in the future. My PhD project was more broadly a Bioinformatics project, as not only did I implement methods for solving Biological problems on CUDA-enabled graphics cards, but I also analysed the results I obtained from a Medical perspective. My interest in this fascinating area of Computer Science stems from my BSc study, also at Cardiff.

Professional memberships

Fellow of Advance HE (formerly HEA) FHEA

Academic positions

  • 2018-present: Lecturer, Cardiff University
  • 2018: Teacher, Cardiff University
  • 2017-2018: Casual Research Assistant, Cardiff University
  • 2013-2017: Demonstrator (as part of PhD)

Publications

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Teaching

I am module leader for the following modules:

  • Performance and Scalability (2nd year BSc)
  • Programming Principles and Practice (MSc)

I am also a Personal Tutor to BSc and MSc students, supervise final year BSc and MSc dissertation projects as well as Year in Industry placement students, and am Director of Recruitment & Admissions for COMSC.

My research interests are mainly in high performance computing (HPC), and particularly in the use of CUDA-enabled graphics cards. I have also done research into the use of CUDA with Cloud-based technologies.

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