PhD student at Edinburgh Napier University in the Computing department, researching machine leaning and natural language processing technologies. Research interests include online media, public safety, privacy and data-driven decision making.
Previously a freelance web developer providing full-stack development project services. Former journalist, editor, manager, video news editor.
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PhD in Artificial Intelligence, 2020-?
Edinburgh Napier University
MSc in Computing, 2020
Edinburgh Napier University
BA in English, 2008
Manchester Metropolitan University
Provide academic advisory support to the Alan Turing Institute staff who set up and conduct Data Study Group sessions. This involves:
Large pre-trained language models have pushed the boundaries of the state-of-the-art in NLP, but their use runs the risk of encoding unwanted private personal information derived from input texts. Our proposed system adds calibrated noise and an adversarial training objective to reduce private information leakage.
Code projects for Warhammer players and organizers
Some examples of commercial website development experience.