Curriculum Vitae
AI safety researcher at Arrow Research. I have a PhD from the UKRI CDT in Safe and Trusted AI at King's and Imperial College London.
ORCID: 0009-0007-1904-431X
Timeline
Member of Technical Staff at Arrow Research.
Co-located at King's College London & Imperial College London.
Supervisors: Elizabeth Black & Michael Luck.
Thesis: Reasoning with Requirements: Argumentation Semantics for Nonmonotonic Logics of Normativity.
Technical co-founder (engineering) of a startup building large-scale expert systems. We were funded by the UK's Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) to assess the feasibility of using LLMs for knowledge generation.
Fixed-term contract developing agent-based and statistical models to forecast the volume and values of UK automated payment schemes (card, cash, bank transfers, etc.).
Tutorials and lab sessions for several undergraduate and postgraduate modules, mostly in artificial intelligence.
First Class.
Dissertation: An agent-based model of information diffusion over online social networks during the 2016 US presidential election.
A variety of software and data science projects carried out for clients: including business management software, and health-related geospatial mapping projects.
Agent-based modelling and data science to support the Current Account Switch Service (via reports; consultation responses; engagement with CMA and HM Treasury).
A six-week project investigating methods for multi-ledger inter-blockchain protocols using solidity contracts.
Double Maths + Physics ( + English Lit AS; EPQ)
Literature review focusing on the drivers of switching behaviours in networked markets (e.g., banking & payments).
Education
- 2019–26PhD, Artificial IntelligenceUKRI CDT in Safe and Trusted AI
Co-located at King's College London & Imperial College London.
Supervisors: Elizabeth Black & Michael Luck.
Thesis: Reasoning with Requirements: Argumentation Semantics for Nonmonotonic Logics of Normativity. - 2015–19BSc (Hons), Computer ScienceKing's College London
First Class.
Dissertation: An agent-based model of information diffusion over online social networks during the 2016 US presidential election. - 2013–15A-LevelsCentral Sussex College
Employment
- 2025–26Co-FounderDeducto
Technical co-founder (engineering) of a startup building large-scale expert systems. We were funded by the UK's Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) to assess the feasibility of using LLMs for knowledge generation.
- 2021–22Modelling ConsultantPay.UK
Fixed-term contract developing agent-based and statistical models to forecast the volume and values of UK automated payment schemes (card, cash, bank transfers, etc.).
- 2019–21Graduate Teaching AssistantKing's College London
Tutorials and lab sessions for several undergraduate and postgraduate modules, mostly in artificial intelligence.
- 2017–19Software Development ConsultingSelf Employed
A variety of software and data science projects carried out for clients: including business management software, and health-related geospatial mapping projects.
- 2016–17Research AnalystBacs Payment Schemes
Agent-based modelling and data science to support the Current Account Switch Service (via reports; consultation responses; engagement with CMA and HM Treasury).
- 2016Research InternKing's College London
A six-week project investigating methods for multi-ledger inter-blockchain protocols using solidity contracts.
- 2014Nuffield Research PlacementUK Payments Administration
Literature review focusing on the drivers of switching behaviours in networked markets (e.g., banking & payments).
Selected publications
* joint first author
- Evaluating Language Model Character Traits. Findings of the ACL: Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024. Open Access
- The Propensity for Density in Feed-forward Models. European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2024. Preprint
- Modelling Moral Debate using Reason-based Abstract Argumentation Theory. Workshop on AI Meets Moral Philosophy at NeurIPS, 2023. Preprint
- Finding Sparse Initialisations with Neuroevolutionary Ticket Search (NeTS). Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE), 2023. Open Access
Teaching & supervision
- 2026. Co-supervision of PGR student from the University of São Paulo.
- 2023. Co-supervision of a postgraduate exchange student via DAAD.
- Six seminars on the Philosophy and Ethics of AI at King's College London.
- Graduate teaching assistant for postgraduate modules in: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Agents and Multi-Agent Systems; Programming Language Design Paradigms; Scientific Computing for Finance; and Agent-Based Modelling in Finance.
Professional service
- Reviewer: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2026)
- PC: Workshop on Formal Ethical Agents and Robots (FEAR 2025).
- PC: Workshop on Formal Ethical Agents and Robots (FEAR 2024).
- PC: Workshop on AI Meets Moral Phil. & Moral Psych. (NeurIPS 2023).
- PC: Online Handbook of Argumentation for AI, vol. 4, (OHAAI 2023).
- PC: Workshop on Safe and Trustworthy AI (ICLP 2023).
- Reviewer: European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024)
- Reviewer: Workshop on Value Engineering in AI (ECAI 2023).
Funding & awards
- UKRI PhD Studentship Fully funded studentship in the CDT in Safe and Trusted AI.
- Layton Science Research Award “Best promise of aptitude and genius for original scientific work.”
- King's Experience Research Award For agent-based modelling of UK current account switching behaviours.
- Gold Crest Award For causal modelling of consumer switching in networked markets.