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Biography
After doing a PhD at Imperial Colleage London in computational nanotechnology, Ella Gale moved to the Univeristy of the West of England and the Bristol Robotics Laboratory to make novel computer components (memristors). This post-doc included materials science research, and using the memristors to make circuits led to an interested in artificial intelligence and bioinspired systems. After this postdoc she moved the Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research (UAE) to work on modelling spintronic devices and materials. She then moved to Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technology CDT to work with chemical engineers on biodegradable plastics. To gain a deeper understanding of neural networks, she then did a post-doc in the School of Psychology at the University of Bristol before moving to the Technology Enhanced Chemical Synthesis CDT in the School of Chemistry and the University of Bristol. There she taught machine learning and data science and researched novel ways to input molecular structure into ML algorithms. Currently she is the Innovation in Education Lecturer in the School of Chemistry where she develops and delivers digital chemistry teaching materials.
Research interests
Ella Gale works at applying machine learning algorithms to chemistry problems, especially by using new mathematical techniques to improve the effeiciency of molecular machine learning. She software including for virtual reality, machine learning and design of experiments. Her other research interests are materials for novel computer components like memristors, spintronics and other devices.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Categorical Chemistry and Machine Learning for Pharmaceutical and Agrochemical Development
Principal Investigator
Description
By utilising the very new mathematics from category theory, we can make chemistry machine learning algorithms that are capable of creativity, allowing us to do drug development much faster.Managing organisational unit
School of ChemistryDates
02/10/2023 to 25/07/2025
Publications
Recent publications
31/05/2022The emerging potential of interactive virtual reality in drug discovery
Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery
Interactivity
Interactivity
Isness
Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing System
Subtle Sensing
CHI 2020 Late-Breaking Work
Isness: Using Multi-Person VR to Design Peak Mystical Type Experiences Comparable to Psychedelics
Teaching
Ella Gale currently teaches statstics, python programming, data science, design off experiments and digital chemistry. She is engaged in writing and developing educational software to teach chemistry, including in virtual reality. She runs the undergraduate V.R. laboratory.
