Matt Peniket
Education
MSc Computer Science
University College London, 2024 (Distinction)
MSc Cognitive Neuroscience
University College London, 2020 (Distinction)
BSc Neuroscience
King's College London, 2019 (1st Class Honours)
Skills
Programming Languages
Libraries & Frameworks
Projects
- Microsoft Summer Project – AI Engineering / Web Application Development
May-September 2024
Building with TypeScript, React, Next.js, MongoDB, Microsoft Azure AI products.
Supervised by Lee Stott, Principal Cloud Advocate, Microsoft, and Dr Yun Fu, UCL.
Video Demo - This website!
July 2024
Built with React, Next.js, TypeScript. - MotionInput Games website
January-April 2024 – for MotionInput Games Ltd.
Built with React, Node.js, Next.js, Postgres, JavaScript, Figma.
Grade: Distinction
motioninputgames.com - Mental Health Management Platform
February-April 2024
EHR system for psychaitric care designed for the Software Engineering module within my CS MSc. Software system designed with UML and prototype developed in Figma.
Grade: Distinction
Video Demo - Aurora
Feb-April 2024
For the Tech Entrepreneurship module within my CS MSc. Figma Prototype.
Grade: Distinction
aurora-health.uk
Video Demo - ClinScribe
February 2024 – UCL-FHIR hackathon 2024 (with Roche & GOSH)
An LLM proof-of-concept web tool for converting a clinical consultation to a clinical letter and JSON format for electronic health records. Built with Python, Flask, HTML, and CSS.
Video Demo - BidHouse
November-December 2023
Fully-featured auction website for the databases module within my CS MSc. Built with PHP, HTML, CSS and SQL.
Grade: Distinction
Video Demo - Refugee Management system
November-December 2023
For the programming module within my CS MSc. Built with Python and tkinter.
Grade: Merit
Video Demo
Experience
Full Stack Engineer, Reply
January 2025 – Present
AWS-focussed Full Stack Engineer within 'Storm' Reply. Python, Docker, AWS, GitHub Actions.
Research Assistant, UCL Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit
November 2021 – September 2023
Over this two-year period, I was employed as an RA. I ran three research studies involving >200 participants. I recruited participants, collected data, carried out data analysis, management, transformation, and visualisation (using SPSS Statistics, the 'R' statistical programming language), managed large datasets, contributed to academic papers for publication in peer-reviewed journals, trained interns, MSc students, research assistants and PhD rotation students.
British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) Summer Research Intern
UCL Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit
July 2021 – October 2021
Publications
- 'Building Safer AI Applications: A Practical Approach'.
Peniket, M.J. (2024).
Microsoft Developer Community Blog. - 'A Beginner's Guide to Text Moderation and Prompt Shields for Large Language Model (LLM) Chatbots'.
Peniket, M.J. (2024).
Microsoft Educator Developer Blog. - 'Enhancing Applications with AI – RoomRadar.Ai's Chatbot, Search, and Recommendation Systems'.
Peniket, M.J. (2024).
Microsoft Educator Developer Blog. - 'The effects of paranoia and dopamine on perception of cohesion and conspiracy: a pre-registered, double-blind, placebo-controlled experiment'.
Raihani, N.J., Kamboj, S.K., Peniket, M.J., et al. (2023).
Psychopharmacology. - 'A Bioelectronic Route to Compassion: Rationale and Study Protocol for Combining Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation (tVNS) with Compassionate Mental Imagery'.
Kamboj, S., Peniket, M.J., Simeonov, L. (2023).
PLOS ONE. - 'No-Think, No Drink? Assessing the ability of reconsolidation interference by intentional forgetting to suppress alcohol memories in hazardous drinkers'.
Simeonov, L., Peniket, M.J., Das, R. (2022).
Behaviour Research and Therapy.