Experience

Research Fellow — MATS Research

January 2026 – Present · Berkeley, USA
  • Technical AI safety research fellowship working with Cozmin Ududec of UK AISI
  • Project working on understanding emergent misalignment in LLMs using a Bayesian mode selection picture

Research Scientist — Independent

June 2025 – Present · London, UK
  • Independent AI safety research in collaboration with Google DeepMind researcher Jonathan Richens
  • Interpreting and steering model internals of a goal-conditioned RL agent to study how the agent represents its world model and goals, drawing from causal inference theory

Machine Learning Scientist — Depop

January 2024 – January 2026 · London, UK
  • Developed ML-powered recommender system with PyTorch relying on a large-scale ETL pipeline
  • Gained experience with Spark, Databricks, Airflow, and AWS services

Research Fellow — AI Safety Camp

January 2024 – June 2024 · London, UK
  • Research on the interpretability of maze-solving transformers
  • Implemented activation steering to control transformer behaviour and understand internal representations

Data Scientist — Faculty AI

June 2023 – August 2023 · London, UK
  • Intensive data science course covering supervised/unsupervised learning, neural networks, reinforcement learning, and AI safety
  • Developed a recommender system for sales lead generation, achieving a 2.5x efficiency increase

Education

PhD Theoretical Physics — University of Nottingham

October 2019 – December 2023 · Nottingham, UK
  • Designed and wrote large-scale C code to simulate gravitational collapse of quantum matter
  • Analysed and visualised simulation data with Python
  • Published 3 original research papers in high-impact physics journals

MSc Theoretical & Mathematical Physics — Imperial College London

September 2018 – September 2019 · London, UK

BSc Physics — University College London

September 2015 – June 2018 · London, UK