I’m a research scientist, soon to be joining the the UK AI Security Institute where I’ll be working to understand and address the socio-cultural impacts of AI on individuals and society at large. Before this, I was a research associate in the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation. I completed my PhD in the Centre for Speech Technology Research at the University of Edinburgh where I worked with Catherine Lai and Peter Bell.

I’m interested in communication and how we use it efficiently. My research explores the congitive mechanisms that underpin our ability to understand and produce language. During my PhD, I was particularly focused on how information encoded in the lexical and non-lexical channels of spoken communication affects perception, and applying these insights to better model human language comprehension as well as guide the development of efficient, perceptually-motivated representations of multi-channel communicative signals.

Translation: Spoken conversation is one of the most fundamental means we have for information transmission. How can we make use of information encoded in both [what words we say]_Lexical and [how we say them]_Non-lexical to better understand human communication and augment human-machine interactions?

In my spare time, I play, sing, and listen to music. I enjoy climbing moutains and rocks (whichever are closer!) and teaching yoga.

Before starting my PhD, I worked on several ML & NLP research teams across the UK, Denmark, and Germany. Check out my resumé for more details (updated June 2025).