Emir Ahmed, a final-year undergraduate in mathematics, was on placement last year at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, supervised at NPL by Dr Ciaran Bench. A faculty-wide contest was held for the best placement student last year, and Emir was the winner. He is the first mathematician in over 5 years to win this award. The screenshot below is from his published paper “Style transfer as data augmentation: evaluating unpaired image-to-image translation models in mammography“, with co-authors Spencer Thomas and Ciaran Bench (both at NPL). Emir’s placement tutor is Polina Vytnova and she also nominated him for the prize.