CV

• Co-led research report on measuring AI capabilities for UK AI Safety Institute, connecting Singular Learning Theory with psychometric analysis.
• Developing UK AISI findings into public article series on validity of AI evaluations.
• Co-authored report on risks from governed multi-agent AI systems, commissioned by the Australian Department of Industry, Science and Resources.
• Conducted horizon scanning on frontier AI developments for a major financial institution.
• Designed and presented technical AI education for government agencies and industry.
• Lead organiser of Australian AI Safety Forum 2024, connecting researchers, policymakers, and practitioners for a two-day event in Sydney.

• Key contributor to the Developmental Interpretability research agenda in collaboration with Timaeus, combining theory from SLT with empirical methods to study structure formation in trained neural networks.
• Lead author on paper studying transient structure in transformers; co-author on paper analysing phase transitions in language models.
• Wrote "Distilling Singular Learning Theory" article sequence, which became a canonical sequence that helped catalyse Developmental Interpretability as a research agenda.
• Lightspeed Grant recipient ($48k USD) for six months of full-time research on Developmental Interpretability; Long Term Future Fund grant recipient ($8k USD) for writing Distilling SLT sequence.

Developed AI recommender system simulation.

Led six-day hikes on Tasmania's Overland Track for groups of 12, providing interpretations and hospitality while managing safety and logistics.

Tutor for Calculus 1 and 2 subjects.

Developed statistical methodology for test-retest analysis; created visualisations to communicate mental health survey results to school clients.

• Thesis in Phase Transitions in Neural Networks supervised by Dr. Daniel Murfet.
• Pure Mathematics: Functional Analysis, Algebraic Geometry, Lie Algebras, Partial Differential Equations
• Applied Mathematics: Advanced Methods Transforms, Random Matrix Theory, Mathematical Biology, Advanced Methods Differential Equations
• Statistics: Mathematical Statistics, Statistical Machine Learning, Stochastic Calculus with Applications

• Majored in Applied Mathematics with additional subjects in Pure Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science and Music.

• Majored in Clarinet Performance and a regular member of the Conservatorium Wind Symphony.

Artistic director, project manager and choir conductor of a large memorial (450 attendants, 40 participating musicians) for a dearly beloved friend and inspiring musician from St Leonard's College. A video recording can be found here.

Assistant leader on six-day Year 10 hikes held in the Mt Buller region.

Organised a 24hr 100km charity walk with a group of friends to raise money for R U OK? and promote their main messages of social cohesion through conversation.