Work
2025 – now
Creative Technologist (AI agents), Nesta
Heat pump installer agentHalved the time installers spend on grid connection applications, backed by research into the paperwork slowing heat pumps down.
Grid applications research 19,000 planning applications In The Times
Healthy food standard auditorChecks products against the UK's healthy food reporting standard at hundreds of rows a minute, instead of 10 to 20 minutes a row by hand.
Five questions to ask before building an AI agent
Nesta blog
Creative Technologist (AI agents), Nesta
Heat pump installer agentHalved the time installers spend on grid connection applications, backed by research into the paperwork slowing heat pumps down.
Grid applications research 19,000 planning applications In The Times
Healthy food standard auditorChecks products against the UK's healthy food reporting standard at hundreds of rows a minute, instead of 10 to 20 minutes a row by hand.
Five questions to ask before building an AI agent
Nesta blog 2024 – 2025
AI alignment and governance
Newspeak House Fellow of the 2024 cohort at the London college for political technology, where I ran the Democratic AI event series.
#1: the Habermas Machine #2: AI tools for group deliberation
ARENA A five-week bootcamp in ML engineering for alignment, from interpretability to RLHF and evals.
BlueDot Impact Two 12-week courses, one on AI alignment and one on AI governance.
How sovereign is sovereign compute?A policy paper reviewing 775 data centres outside the US.
arXiv
Apart Research hackathonsTwo weekend research sprints, each ending in a paper.
WashBench Artificial Advocates (prize winner)
Newspeak House Fellow of the 2024 cohort at the London college for political technology, where I ran the Democratic AI event series.
#1: the Habermas Machine #2: AI tools for group deliberation
ARENA A five-week bootcamp in ML engineering for alignment, from interpretability to RLHF and evals.
BlueDot Impact Two 12-week courses, one on AI alignment and one on AI governance.
How sovereign is sovereign compute?A policy paper reviewing 775 data centres outside the US.
arXiv
Apart Research hackathonsTwo weekend research sprints, each ending in a paper.
WashBench Artificial Advocates (prize winner) 2020 – 2023
Product Data Scientist, Cash App (Square)Founding data scientist on Borrow, which grew from an idea to over a million users and turned profitable.
Product Data Scientist, Cash App (Square)Founding data scientist on Borrow, which grew from an idea to over a million users and turned profitable.2018 – 2020
Data Scientist, LoanSnapBuilt a bidding recommender that lifted conversions by 30%.
Data Scientist, LoanSnapBuilt a bidding recommender that lifted conversions by 30%.