Dr Tim Bashford PhD, B.Sc. (Hons) Software Engineering, PGCE (PCET)

• Programme management, development, administration and admissions
• Undergraduate/postgraduate teaching and supervision (HND, BSc, MSc and PhD)
• Academic partnership management and oversight
• Research

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
• STEM Ambassador

I have a diverse range of largely computing-oriented interests, including:

• Parallel, Distributed and High Performance Computing
• Programming and code optimisation
• Clustering
• Scientific computing

• Parallelism through threading, MPI and GPGPU, with a particular interest in dynamic growth and mixed-mode parallelism models
• Current research is focused on developing an optimal model for light-tissue interaction and thermal transport for arbitrary geometry
• Pedagogy, especially motivation and gamification theory

• Currently involved in research supervision for ASTUTE 2020
• Previously consulted on a HPC Wales grant

Selected publications: 

Journal articles

1. C. Ash, M. Dubec, K. Donne and T. Bashford, "Effect of wavelength and beam width on penetration in light-tissue interaction using computational methods", Lasers in Medical Science, vol. 32, no. 8, pp. 1909-1918, 2017.
2. T. Bashford, K. Donne, A. Marotin and A. Al-Hussany, "Parallelisation Techniques for the Dual Reciprocity and Time-Dependent Boundary Element Method Algorithms", International Journal of Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 395-403, 2017.
3. K. Donne, A. Marotin and T. Bashford, "Solution of the Transient Thermal Diffusion Equation Using the Time-Dependent Boundary Element Method", International Journal of Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 260-270, 2017.
4. G. Jenkins, G. Roger, S. Macken, M. Dacey and T. Bashford, "Learned Anatomical Joint Constraint Models with Rigid Map Networks", International Journal of Simulation Systems, Science & Technology, vol. 17, no. 35, pp. 31.1-31.8, 2016.
5. G. Jenkins, G. Roger, M. Dacey and T. Bashford, "Anatomical Joint Constraint Modelling with Rigid Map Neural Networks", SNE Simulation Notes Europe, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 105-108, 2016.

 Conference presentations

1. T. Bashford, K. Donne, A. Marotin and A. Al-Hussany, "Parallelisation Techniques for the Dual Reciprocity and Time-Dependent Boundary Element Method Algorithms", 2016 39th International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods in Siena, Italy.
2. K. Donne, A. Marotin and T. Bashford, "Solution of the Transient Thermal Diffusion Equation Using the Time-Dependent Boundary Element Method", 2016 39th International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods in Siena, Italy.