bsc natural sciences · university of birmingham · 2020–2024
Birmingham gave me the biological and computational base for the work I do now. I studied Natural Sciences with a focus on biosciences, including molecular biology, genetics, cell biology, neurobiology, chemistry, omics, and philosophy of science.
By the final year, my work shifted towards computational biology. My dissertation explored gene co-occurrence matrices, gene ontology networks, and multi-omics analysis as ways of reasoning about biological structure from data. That work introduced several themes I still return to: representation learning, co-occurrence as signal, network structure, and the relationship between biological and linguistic sequences.
I graduated with First Class Honours. During the same period I completed a three-month software engineering internship at a startup, working in iOS development with Swift. I gained experience writing production code in a professional engineering environment, which helped me to think like an engineer.