Experience

Research across engineering and science.

Academic research, research internships, education, and selected awards.

Research and industry

Experience

2025 to present

Graduate Research Assistant

SCiDaMa Group, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

Develop neural surrogate models and reinforcement learning methods for high-dimensional flow control. Audit learned action sensitivities and validate controllers in direct numerical simulation.

  • Scientific ML
  • Flow control
  • Reinforcement learning
2023 to 2025

Machine Learning Researcher

University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Studied nonlocal state inference in neural PDE surrogates, with emphasis on reconstructing latent variables from partial and spatially coarsened observations.

  • Physics-informed ML
  • PDEs
  • Inference
2023 to 2025

Deep Learning Researcher

Imperial College London, Data Science Institute, Cambridge and London, UK

Compared CNN and transformer architectures for next day wildfire segmentation. Used SHAP, Grad-CAM, and Integrated Gradients to analyze feature attribution.

  • Computer vision
  • Explainable AI
  • Remote sensing
Summer 2024

AI and Data Science, Quantitative Research Intern

J.P. Morgan, Quantitative Solutions, London, UK

Built transformer research pipelines to track sentiment in financial news and forecast stock returns.

  • Transformers
  • NLP
  • Quantitative research
Summer 2023

Deep Learning Intern

European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK

Built synthetic data simulations and trained CNN and transformer models for biological sequence classification with the Goldman group.

  • Bioinformatics
  • Sequence models
  • Synthetic data
2023

Dry-Lab Researcher

Cambridge iGEM Team, Cambridge, UK

Designed and modeled a synthetic gene expression circuit in Julia for a Gold Medal iGEM project.

  • Computational biology
  • Julia
  • Systems modeling

Training

Education

2025 to 2030

PhD, Mechanical Engineering

University of Washington, Seattle

AI Institute in Dynamic Systems. Research in scientific machine learning, reinforcement learning, flow control, and fluid mechanics.

2021 to 2025

MEng and BA, Information and Computer Engineering

University of Cambridge, Cambridge

Studied machine learning, computational science, mathematical methods, inference, control theory, and statistical signal processing.

Selected recognition

Awards

2024

1st Place, AIGC Hackbridge UK Hackathon

2023

2nd Place, Citadel European Datathon

2023

Gold Medal, iGEM Synthetic Biology Competition

2023

1st Place, AIGC Hackbridge UK Hackathon

2023

Top 1%, IMC Quantitative Trading Competition