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Hi there ! I'm Roussel Desmond Nzoyem (pronounced **zo-e-m**), a PhD student in Scientific Machine Learning at the University of Bristol, investigating parallel algorithms for combined data-driven and physics-informed simulation and control. I'm advised by [Dr Tom Deakin](https://hpc.tomdeakin.com/), [Pr David Barton](https://cityinthesky.co.uk/about-me/), and [Pr Simon McIntosh-Smith](http://uob-hpc.github.io/SimonMS/).


My research sits at the intersection of **Artificial Intelligence**, **High Performance Computing**, and **Scientific Computing**. Some of the questions I ponder are:

- How to best learn and combine classical knowledge of physical systems with data-driven approaches ?
- How to make these systems robust to noise while generalizing well to unseen scenarios with limited data ?
- How to scale existing physics-based AI techniques to real-world engineering problems: this involves questions like strong/weak scaling and uncertainty quantification.
- What role do humans and domain scientists in particular play in the envisioned systemic symbioses above ?
- The _parallel computational theory of the causal mind_ as broadly covered by John R. Searle in _Philosophy of Mind_ and Malcolm Gladwell in _Blink_.


For more details, read [my CV](cv.qmd) or view my profile on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/roussel-desmond-nzoyem/). If they grab your attention, please do send me [a message](#contact-me).


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## Hobbies

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![I enjoy all things computer hardware, software and games: from old classics to AAA's like DOOM. Nothing like a first-person shooter to evade your troubles.](assets/images/games.jpeg)

![In another life, I'm pretty sure I am/was a moviemaker.](assets/images/movies.jpg)

![My Casiotone CT-S100. I've just recently taken back to playing the piano. Hopefully some of my pieces will feature here soon.](assets/images/piano.jpg)

![Football is life. I play weekly in one of Bristol's minor leagues. Call me if you're putting together a game.](assets/images/football.jpg)
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## Address

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