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Basics
Name | George Webber |
Role | PhD Researcher |
george.w11@hotmail.co.uk | |
Phone | +44 7741 457 121 |
Summary | Second-year PhD student at King’s College London with a First-Class Master’s in Mathematics & Computer Science from the University of Oxford. Research focuses on integrating generative machine learning models with conventional PET and MR reconstruction techniques to enhance medical image quality. |
Work
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2023.11 - Present London, UK
Graduate Teaching Assistant
King’s College London
- Deliver tutorials for undergraduate mathematics and labs for an interdisciplinary medical imaging module.
- Mark coursework and provide detailed feedback to cohorts of 60+ students.
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2022.06 - 2022.09 London, UK
Alpha Tech Intern – Quant Analysis
Man Group
- Designed experiments on simulated portfolios, enhancing Value-at-Risk calculations by incorporating earnings-announcement effects.
- Co-authored an internal research paper and delivered a 30-minute presentation to senior risk managers.
- Shipped production-ready Python code to calculate daily risk metrics.
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2021.09 - 2021.12 Oxford, UK
Senior Consultant
Oxford Strategy Group Digital
- Open-sourced and extended Wise’s variational-autoencoder model for customer-behaviour prediction.
- Authored tutorials and Jupyter notebooks demonstrating applications for fintech clients.
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2021.07 - 2021.08 Remote / UK
Software Engineering Intern
Microsoft
- Built and documented an automated monitoring solution for critical infrastructure.
- Acted as technical lead among interns—wrote high-level design docs, test plans, and conducted code reviews.
Volunteer
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2023.09 - Present Elected Student Representative
Smart Medical Imaging CDT
Organise research-development seminars and social events for the cohort.
Education
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2023.09 - Present London, UK
PhD
King’s College London
Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences
- Project: Fully Bayesian 3D PET-MR Neuroimaging Reconstruction.
- Investigating pre-trained diffusion models as generative priors for inverse problems in medical imaging.
- Supervisors: Prof. Andrew J. Reader and Prof. Andrew P. King.
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2019.10 - 2023.06 Oxford, UK
MMathCompSci
St Anne’s College, University of Oxford
Mathematics & Computer Science
- First Class overall (77 %) and Distinction in final year (81 %).
- Master’s thesis: Improving the Security of Smartwatch Payment with Deep Learning.
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2012.09 - 2019.06 Abingdon, UK
Secondary School
John Mason School, Abingdon
A-Levels and EPQ
- A*A*A*A*A* in Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, and an EPQ.
Publications
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2025.06.01 Likelihood-Scheduled Score-Based Generative Modeling for Fully 3-D PET Image Reconstruction
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
Authors: G. Webber et al.
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2025.05.01 Steerable Conditional Diffusion for Domain Adaptation in PET Image Reconstruction
IEEE MIC 2025 (under review)
Authors: G. Webber et al. Submitted: May 2025
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2025.05.01 Distributional Consistency Loss: Solving Noisy Inverse Problems Without Overfitting
NeurIPS 2025 (under review)
Authors: G. Webber & A. J. Reader. Submitted: May 2025
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2025.02.01 Personalized MR-Informed Diffusion Models for 3D PET Image Reconstruction
IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences (under review)
Authors: G. Webber et al. Submitted: Feb 2025
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2025.02.01 Supervised Diffusion-Model-Based PET Image Reconstruction
MICCAI 2025 (under review)
Authors: G. Webber et al. Submitted: Feb 2025
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2024.11.01 Multi-Subject Image Synthesis as a Generative Prior for Single-Subject PET Reconstruction
IEEE MIC 2024, Tampa (poster)
Authors: G. Webber et al.
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2024.11.01 Generative-Model-Based Fully 3-D PET Image Reconstruction by Conditional Diffusion Sampling
IEEE Medical Imaging Conference (MIC) 2024, Tampa (oral)
Authors: G. Webber et al.
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2024.09.01 Diffusion Models for Medical Image Reconstruction
BJR|Artificial Intelligence
Authors: G. Webber & A. J. Reader
Skills
Programming | |
Python | |
NumPy | |
Pandas | |
SciPy | |
PyTorch | |
TensorFlow | |
scikit-learn | |
Matplotlib | |
Napari | |
Java | |
C# | |
Scala | |
HTML | |
SQL | |
JavaScript | |
CSS | |
Haskell |
Tools & Workflow | |
Git / GitHub | |
Linux | |
Windows | |
Azure | |
GCS storage | |
Scrum / Agile | |
Confluence | |
Jira | |
LaTeX |