From mechanical engineering to AI safety research — driven by one question: how do we make technology work for society?
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🎓 PhD Researcher · QMUL
🏛 Arkwright Scholar
🔐 Red Teamer · OXIQA
📍 London, UK
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2015 – 2016 · A Levels
Foundation
Design Technology — 100%
Achieved full marks across all design coursework, earning an Arkwright Scholarship and widespread recognition for CAD work. This set the foundation for everything that followed — precision thinking, product reasoning, and a belief that engineering should serve people.
2017 – 2020 · BEng (Hons)
Degree
Mechanical Engineering
Trained as a mechanical engineer with a drive to build things that help society evolve. I quickly noticed most engineering equations had been encoded into digital tools and wanted to go deeper — applying predictive models to problems like bridge maintenance and environmental failure projection.
2020 – 2021 · MSc · Distinction
Postgraduate
Data Science & Artificial Intelligence
Graduated with Distinction. Studied NLP, machine learning, statistics and AI — but the work opened harder questions. ML models can fail catastrophically in critical systems. They demand enormous data. And that data is often ours, harvested without meaningful consent, routinely in breach of GDPR and the UK DPA.
2021 – Present · Head of Data Science
Industry · Promoted
Data Scientist → Head of Data Science · Travel Agency
Applied data science in the family business — ML for customer behaviour, web scraping for content population, statistical SEO optimisation. Promoted to Head of Data Science. Also designed an ongoing loyalty scheme connecting travellers to environmentally friendly local experiences, raising sustainability awareness through seasonal passes in collaboration with photographers.
2023 – Ongoing · Consultation
Security
Cybersecurity Red Teamer · OXIQA
Trained and worked as a red teamer during the ChatGPT-3.5 moment — the beginning of the AI boom. Everyone now had equal access to generate malicious code. OXIQA taught me how organisations handle threats, but raised a bigger question: what happens to society when dangerous capabilities become universally accessible?
September 2025 – Ongoing · PhD
Now
PhD Researcher · Psychology & AI · QMUL
That question led here. I now research the impact of artificial social agents (ASAs) on human behaviour and society — specifically how LLMs act as cognitive mediators, shaping trust, distorting judgement, and altering decisions. Current projects: LLM personality modelling and a published paper on AI in cyber situational awareness.