Edward Offord
About Me
I am a third year PhD student under the supervision of Professor Till Bretschneider. I graduated from the University of Warwick Department of Computer Science in 2022 with a first-class MEng degree in Discrete Mathematics.
Research Interests
My research project focuses on the application of graph neural networks to extract spatio-temporal biological patterns on evolving domains. Here is an example of a Dictyostelium cell undergoing macropinocytosis with highlighted cup regions:
Papers
Platt, Adam, Judith Lutton, and Till Bretschneider. "MiCellAnnGELo: Annotate microscopy time series of complex cell surfaces with 3D Virtual Reality." Bioinformatics 39, no. 1 (2023): btad013.
E. Offord, E. J. Lutton and T. Bretschneider, "Cell Membrane Feature Detection Using Graph Neural Networks," 2023 IEEE 20th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), Cartagena, Colombia, 2023, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ISBI53787.2023.10230695.
E. Offord, J. Lutton and T. Bretschneider, "Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks for Analysing Spatio-Temporal Cell Surface Dynamics," 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), Athens, Greece, 2024, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ISBI56570.2024.10635109.
Teaching
As a part of my research studies I have also taught in the following modules:
CS126 Design of Information Structures (22/23)
CS904 Computational Biology (22/23), (23/24)
CS130 Mathematics for Computer Science 1 (23/24)
Awards
Warwick WPCCS 2023 best in session of machine learning in biology presentations
