Welcome to Aoife’s Blog
Ph.D. in Computational Biology | Software Sustainability Institute Fellow | Open Source Award Winner. Explore my research, interactive visualizations, and thoughts on science, programming, and gaming.
Explore My Research
Plant Cell Transport Simulation
This interactive model demonstrates my PhD research on intercellular communication - specifically numerically simulating the narrow escape problem.
- Published in IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications
- Real Plant Cell Transport Physics
- Open Source PyEscape Package
Global Temperature Data Visualization
During my PhD a few friends and I created an interactive visualization of global temperature data using Python and Plotly. This project is an open educational resource.
- Interactive Climate Data Analysis
- Real-time Map Exploration
- Python & Plotly Implementation
- Open Educational Resources
Language Modelling: Student Handbook
A slide deck teaching how large language models actually work, then setting students loose to break one on purpose and fine-tune one of their own.
- Next-token prediction, temperature & top-k, RLHF
- Hands-on: an LLM password-extraction challenge
- Hands-on: fine-tuning a small local model with LoRA