EXPERIENCE

Senior Data Scientist

The Alan Turing Institute

2022 - Present

Data Scientist 2021-2022

  • Working on AI Safety & Online Safety research with AI researchers, social scientists, and policy experts, within Public Policy programme.
  • Conducting & applying technical research, fine-tuning and evaluating LLMs.
  • Led end-to-end development of the Online Harms Observatory.
  • Building tools to facilitate access to data and compute resources.
  • Advising UK Gov and global policymakers on generative AI and online safety.

Data Scientist

Curve Analytics

2021

  • Worked with consultants to develop search-traffic based brand ranking solution, in Python, driving 6-figure client investment.
  • Built recommender system demo, improving F1-Score 123% over baseline model, initiating large scale project with client.

SKILLS

  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • HF Transformers
  • HF TRL
  • PEFT
  • Sklearn
  • Flask
  • SQL
  • Azure
  • AWS
  • Docker
  • Git
  • Machine Learning
  • Deep Learning
  • Transformers
  • NLP
  • UI/UX Design
  • Tech Policy

EDUCATION

MEng (1st)

Computer Science with Innovation

University of Bristol

2016 - 2020

  • Units taken include:
    Applied Data Science
    Applied Deep Learning
    Machine Learning
    Design & Systems Thinking for Innovation
  • Founder & President, The Innovation Society
  • Organiser, Innovation Design Hackathon 2019
  • Project Manager, Bristol Sustainability Jam 2018
  • Project Lead, Project Soteria 2017-2018

🦤 DoDo Learning

Cross-domain abuse classification
Exploring domain-demographic transfer performance in language models for abuse classification.

💸 Cheap Learning

ML/LLMs for social science on a budget
Exploring domain-demographic transfer performance in language models for abuse classification.

⚽ Footballer Abuse

Abuse on Twitter Against Football Players
Collecting data and training classifiers to label posts targeted at players to analyse patterns in abuse.