• Question: What question or challenge were you setting out to address when you started your work?

    Asked by Georgia.H to Deborah, Euan, Maheen, Rob on 22 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Maheen Siddiqui

      Maheen Siddiqui answered on 22 Jun 2016:

      Hi Georgia.H

      When I started my PhD (1 year ago), I had (sort of) set out to find an early marker for autism.

      Autism is a condition where people have problems communicating with people and have a difficult time making friends and being social.

    • Photo: Euan Allen

      Euan Allen answered on 22 Jun 2016:

      Hi Georgia.H.

      The type of computer that we are building in our group we believe will be useful for many types of people, including biologists, chemists, engineers and mathematicians. The way in which we build the computer, or the bit we focus on the most for now, depends on who first comes to us with a problem to solve. At the start of my research we had a plan to find a person with a particular problem that needed to be solved, and then to work on designing a computer that would be useful for that problem, then building it.

      So far I have managed the first two points, I’m now in the middle of building the computer to see if it’ll do what I expect it to!

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