Ian Volkov
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Welcome to my personal website!
Here you can learn more about me and my work, and peruse some of my projects.
Personal
- Rocket enthusiast
- Slightly too interested in hurricanes
- Long standing Chelsea FC sufferer
Professional
- Website Maintainer for Elmbridge Liberal Democrats
- Web Development
- Data Science
- Machine Learning
Please feel free to read through my CV!
Ian Volkov
British & Canadian Citizen – ian@ianvolkov.com
PERSONAL STATEMENT
A resolutely focused and sociable second-year Computer Science student with a proven academic track record. Focus on achieving beneficial outcomes, drive for success, strong organisational skills, and confidence in the ability to contribute to any team.
Eager to dive into real-world challenges. Committed to exceeding targets and helping others achieve personal goals, seeking an internship to gain practical experience and expand on skills in a professional setting.
EDUCATION
| King’s College London | London, UK | 09/2022 – 09/2026 |
| MSci Computer Science (Concentrations: Intelligence & Data Science) | ||
- Current Predicted: 77% (First Honours)
- Courses: Programming Practice & Applications, Introduction to Software Engineering, Database Systems, Data Structures
| Tiffin School | London, UK | 09/2020 – 06/2022 |
| A Levels: A*AAA | ||
- Grade: A* Maths
- Grade: 3x A Grades in Further Maths, Chemistry, Physics
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Places Leisure | Surrey, UK | 10/2021 – present |
| Senior Assistant, Food & Beverage, Bar | ||
- Customer-facing serving hundreds of customers per week.
- Stock checking before and during peak time events.
- Ensure workplace health and safety regulations.
- Handling day-to-day transactions and inflows.
- Qualified first-aider.
| Elmbridge Liberal Democrats | Surrey, UK | 07/2023 – 11/2023 |
| Website Maintainer - Volunteer | ||
- Responsible for updating the website with local party news
- Re-designing the website based on needs at the time
PROJECT & LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
| King’s AI Team | London, UK | 05/2023 – 08/2023 |
| Group Leader | ||
- Research member for King's AI Team, looking into NeRF algorithms and their applications.
- Creating a dog-like robot, to eventually have autonomy.
| UK Youth Parliament Member | London/Nottingham/Leeds, UK | 05/2017 – 09/2021 |
| Volunteer | ||
- Collaborated with the former Leader of the House of Commons, Jacob Rees-Mogg, to increase parliament involvement in the Youth Parliament.
- Spearheaded drafting and proposing curriculum for life to UKYP Manifesto.
- Responsible for Surrey County Council and presenting the Transport youth cabinet brief.
OTHER PROJECTS & SKILLS
Played a key role in the development and maintenance of https://thestarshipcrew.com, making use of HTML and CSS. Also contributed to a related Discord bot project, utilizing Python and the discord.py library.
Completed the 'Python for Everybody' course on Coursera, a comprehensive Python program provided by Dr. Chuck Severance at the University of Michigan.
- SKILLS: Java, Python, HTML/CSS, Git, SQL (intermediate)