About Me
I'm a first year mathematics PhD student at Imperial College London, under the joint supervision of Dr. Anthea Monod and Prof. Tom Coates. I'm funded by the Erlangen AI Hub and aligned with the geometry branch of the London School of Geometry and Number Theory. I'm also engaged with the Imperial Policy Forum. I'm interested in applying discrete, geometric, and combinatorial ideas from pure math, like algebraic geometry, tropical geometry, and algebraic topology, and their variants, to understand and design structures of thought, learning, and knowledge representation within deep neural networks.
Before starting my PhD, I was a senior AI security researcher at Microsoft on Dr. Andrew Paverd's team, where I worked on AI security vulnerabilities reported through our bug bounty program and LLM interpretability research. My belief that meaning lies in structure (and not the words, symbols, concepts themselves) has informed my approach to interpreting and securing AI systems.
Before this, I was a Threat Hunter for advanced persistent threats across the foundational infrastructure running Azure, M365, and our identity services. I also worked on infrastructure security at Amazon and software engineering for a massively distributed data system (Aurora Storage) at AWS.
I just finished my part-time MSc in the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London, where I was awarded the Marjorie McDermott Scholarship. For my MSc thesis, supervised by Dr. Sarah Filippi, I proved that singularities within the parameter space of statistical models compose according to simple algebraic rules that correspond directly to the min-plus semiring from Tropical Geometry. This provides an alternative, computationally tractable, and more interpretable approach to singular learning theory.
I'm also interested in biological neural networks and aspire for my work to someday contribute to human brain regeneration.
I'm grateful for my journey and to everyone I've connected with along the way. I love studying languages and spend quite a lot of time reading and writing to better understand and express myself. If you want to get in touch, please feel free to email me. I'd love to hear from you!