Ce Guo (/tsə ɡwɔː/, but he does not object to creative variations) is a programmer who occasionally attempts to write research papers. His interests include reconfigurable computing and computational risk management, which are unfortunately less exciting than shouting “LLM” three times in a mirror. Most of his submissions are politely rejected, possibly because they include too many hardware block diagrams, causal graphs, and squiggly time series plots, but not nearly enough neural networks.

Fortunately, Imperial College London has hired him as a Research Fellow at the Department of Computing, probably because of his low tolerance for compiler warnings. In this role, Ce helps with student projects, somehow convincing them that FPGAs are a perfectly reasonable way to spend a Friday night. This has led to a worrying trend of functional systems, happy students, and even the occasional publication. He enjoys experimenting with strange ideas through code, especially ones unlikely to be published or deployed. Remaining at Imperial allows him to avoid the more alienating forms of labour by getting paid to do the sort of things he would probably do anyway.