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Education. MSc Speech and Language Processing, University of Edinburgh (2025–26, expected distinction). BSc Natural Sciences (Biosciences), First Class Honours, University of Birmingham (2020–24), including an exchange year at Amsterdam University College.

Projects. Turn-taking prediction in conversational AI (MSc dissertation, supervised by Catherine Lai and Sarenne Wallbridge). Coursework spanning GRPO-based post-training and reward hacking, WFST-based ASR decoding, histopathology segmentation, and contrastive learning for nucleus classification.

Industry. Contract data annotation training frontier language models (2024–25). Software engineering internship at a startup (iOS/Swift development, 2023).

Skills. Python, PyTorch, signal processing, NLP, speech processing, computer vision, Swift. Foundations in linear algebra, probability, and optimisation. Working knowledge of Git, LaTeX, and Unix tooling.

See Projects for project detail.