Hello from Stanford, CA!

I am a PhD student in the psychology department at Stanford. Before this I was a machine learning engineer at Canva, where I worked on applied NLP and CV for recommender systems, and before that I completed my undergraduate degree at the University of Melbourne, where I studied Psychology and Computer Science.

I am broadly interested in the intersection between machine learning and cognitive science. At the level of individuals, I am interested in the computational processes that underpin higher order cognitive abilities such as reasoning and problem solving. At the level of cultures, I am interested in using large natural datasets paired with recent advances in machine learning to better understand the context that shapes our daily lives.

I want to live in a world where boring things are easily automated and people are empowered to spend more of their time discovering and working on whatever they most care about. My long term goal is thus to build flexible AI systems that learn and think like we do, but faster and more transparently too.

In my spare time I like to run, eat and admire interesting architecture.