Xiao Ma
Teacher of Mathematics and Computer Science | Oxbridge Coordinator at Hurstpierpoint College- Claim this Profile
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Credentials
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Badminton Coaching Foundation Award
Badminton EnglandJul, 2022- Oct, 2024 -
PGCE
University of Sussex, in partnership with Hurstpierpoint CollegeJul, 2022- Oct, 2024
Experience
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Hurstpierpoint College
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United Kingdom
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Education
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100 - 200 Employee
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Teacher of Mathematics and Computer Science | Oxbridge Coordinator
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Aug 2020 - Present
Teaching GCSE and A-Level Mathematics and Computer Science. Academic: - Includes A-Level Further Mathematics. Experience teaching all Mathematics modules across Years 9-13. - As Oxbridge coordinator, provide interview, entrance exam and personal statement preparation as well as mentoring STEM applicants throughout the process. Have conducted mock interviews for partner schools. - Involved with academic enrichment in Mathematics and Computer Science. - Have been involved with EPQ, including being a subject expert for students. - 1-to-1 sessions with learning support pupils. Pastoral / Co-Curricular: - Tutor for Year 12 students. Involves weekly tutorials; half-termly reports; and frequent communication with teachers, pastoral staff, and parents. - Evening duties in my boarding house. - Coaching senior badminton, tennis and squash. Hold a Badminton England coaching qualification. - Supervised outdoor education activities. - Ran the Year 9 logic puzzles activity. Show less
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University of Cambridge
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United Kingdom
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Research Services
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700 & Above Employee
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CAMbassador Scheme
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Jun 2018 - Jun 2020
Paid role as a student ambassador for the University of Cambridge's access and student recruitment events. - Option to work at a wide range of event throughout the year, including open days, residentials and subject masterclasses. - Roles include teaching, leading tours, Q&As and contributing to official presentations. - Have also done a lot of teaching and access work outside of the scheme, including volunteering at many College admissions interviews, open days, school visits and Computer Science and Chemistry events. Show less
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Graphics and Interaction Group, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
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Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Research Intern
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Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
8-week paid research internship in Computer Vision and Computational Photography. Supervised by Dr Rafał Mantiuk (Senior Lecturer and Reader in Graphics and Displays). - Main project: multi-view stereopsis for depth estimation with applications to 3D rendering on a novel hyper-realistic display (stereo, HDR, multi-focal plane) and view interpolation. - Side project: automated tracking of micromovements of the eye to dynamically calibrate the display in real time. - Researched, implemented and tested different stereo matching and structure-from-motion algorithms. - Adapted the code to allow it to handle HDR images. - Determined the best parameters for processing image sets captured by our automated camera gantry. - Experimented with combinations of various filtering techniques (bilateral, Gaussian, median) to post-process the produced depth maps, reducing noise and filling in unknown regions. - Used the RANSAC algorithm to fit analytic geometric models of primitive 3D shapes to noisy point clouds. - Volunteered to advise prospective applicants and demonstrate projects at the Computer Laboratory open days. - Participated in the Machine Learning reading group, focusing on Reinforcement Learning for Automated Theorem Proving. Show less
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Redgate Software
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United Kingdom
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Software Development
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300 - 400 Employee
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Software Engineering Intern
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Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
10-week paid Software Engineering internship. - Worked as a member of a team responsible for internal infrastructure, making commits to the live codebase within the first week. Primarily worked with the .NET framework. - Personally responsible for the development of a new support tool - a full-stack project requiring a front-end client (WPF), API layer to the support platform (C#) and interfacing with a database (SQL). - During the company hack week, volunteered to work on a Cambridge University humanitarian project aiming to provide a technological platform for anonymous reporting of human rights abuses. Was part of a subteam focusing on image/video analysis. - Experienced the entire development process, working with all accompanying tools (GitHub, TeamCity, Octopus). Wrote comprehensive unit and integration tests (NUnit) for all new code. Show less
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Education
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2016 - 2020
University of Cambridge
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science -
2009 - 2016
Royal Latin School
Secondary School and Sixth Form
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