Education

2012-2015

Ph.D. Financial Computing, University College London, UK

An Algorithmic Investigation of Conviction Narrative Theory: Applications in Business, Finance and Economics

2011-2012

MRes in Computer Science, University College London, UK

Jointly with London Business School. Graduated with Distinction

2007-2011

MSci in Mathematics, Imperial College London, UK

Graduated with First Class Honours

Work Experience

2016-2024

Lead Data Scientist at Hala Systems Inc

• Leading the design of Hala’s NLP platform; various LSTM and Transformer models, tuning LLMs for entity detection
• Supporting the development of Hala’s full stack AI project portfolio; noteworthy work on audio involved tuning OpenAI models on smaller target data
• Leading a small team of data scientists; primarily advising on NLP
• Worked with the political consultancy Eurasia Group to develop a range of economic growth, monetary policy and credit sentiment indices related to the Chinese economy. Personally carrying out the project from data scraping to training, validating and building ML models on Chinese data. Outcome was published by Eurasia Group and shared with their China clients

2021-present

Co-founder and CTO at Omm app

• Leading the design of Omm’s technology architecture, analytics and research
• Developed the proprietary algorithm

2016-present

Honorary researcher at University College London

• AI/ML / predictive analytics / computational linguistics / decision making
• Advising Msc and PhD students on their theses in Computer Science

2013-2014

Ph.D. Intern at Bank of England, Financial Stability Directorate

• Research on machine learning, natural language processing & graph analytics for macro-prudential policy
• Developed sentiment analysis software tools using machine learning

2012-2013

Researcher at Molinero Capital Management LLP

• Portfolio optimisation using machine learning algorithms
• Trade execution strategy