# Curriculum Vitae > *“You can’t think about thinking without thinking about thinking about something.”* > ~ **Seymour Papert** ## README.md ``` Who am I... a computer scientist, sociologist, educator, coffee addict? - Amidst complexity, I find beauty in discovering order. - A lover of first-principles thinking and tackling societies foundational problems. - A recovering idealist, with a sprouting seed of solutionism skepticality. - A researcher of educational technology for the people. All while sharing thought-provoking conversations, co-constructing novel meaning, deciphering what it means to provide value, drink A LOT of espresso then provide value and develop meaningful relationships along the way. ``` ## Education **PhD | [Joint ETH-EPFL Doctoral Programme for the Learning Sciences](https://www.epfl.ch/education/phd/jdpls-learning-sciences/) | 2024 - 2028 | [EPFL](https://www.epfl.ch) | Lausanne, Switzerland** * Based in the [Machine Learning for Education Laboratory](https://www.epfl.ch/labs/ml4ed/) * Supervisor: [Prof. Tanja Käser](https://people.epfl.ch/tanja.kaeser/?lang=en) * Co-supervisor: [Prof. Mrinmaya Sachan](https://lre.inf.ethz.ch) * Modules include: Theoretical Foundations of Learning Sciences, Introduction to Methods in Learning Sciences **MA Education & Technology *(Distinction)* | 2023 - 2024 | [UCL IOE](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/) | Bloomsbury, London** * Award Winning Dissertation (Exceptional Dissertation Achievement 85%) * Augmenting LLM Dialogue-Based Tutoring Systems with Natural Language Knowledge Tracing and Learning * Supervisor: [Prof. Mutlu Cukurova](https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/52201-mutlu-cukurova) (Professor of Learning and Artificial Intelligence) * Modules ordered by personal interest: Education and Technology: Key Issues and Debates, Design and Use of Technologies for Education, Digital Sociology of Education, Researching Digital Learning * Student representative, discuss issues with module leaders and organise cohort writing days **BEng Computing *(First Class Honours)* | 2020 - 2023 | [ICL](https://www.imperial.ac.uk) | South Kensington, London** * Award Winning Dissertation (Corporate Program Partnership Award) * Ginkgo & Questionary - Adaptive Educational Systems (dual-sided updates of question difficulty and student understanding; and question suggestion) * Supervisor: [Dr Robert Chatley](https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rbc/) (Director of Software Engineering Practice and Director of DoC EdTech Lab) * Modules ordered by personal interest (excluding programming and projects): Logic-Based Learning (92.94%), Software Engineering Design (90.18%), Compilers (89.78%), Communicating Computer Science in Schools, Symbolic Reasoning, Managing Innovation, Type Systems, Graphs & Algorithms, Models of Computation, Discrete Mathematics, Algorithm Design & Analysis, Concurrency, Computer Architecture, Computer Systems, Databases, Operating Systems, Network and Communications, Network Security **A-Levels *(A\*A\*A\*A)* | 2018 - 2020 | Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School, Aylesbury** * Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Computer Science, Business Studies ## Teaching Experience * 2025, Teaching Assistant for ENV-101 Sustainability | EPFL * 2020 - present, Mathematics & Computer Science Tutoring (> 35 students) * 2023, [A-Level MA\*ths Online](https://www.imperial.ac.uk/be-inspired/schools-outreach/secondary-schools/mentoring-and-tutoring/maths-online-programme/) Group Tutor | MEI & ICL * 2023, Teaching Assistant for ‘ImpVis: Designing Interactive Visualisations for Education’ 2nd Year Course | ICL * 2023, Communicating Computer Science in Schools | ICL & [SHFGS](https://www.sirhenryfloyd.co.uk) * 2022, 'Mathematics to Further Mathematics’ Intensive Summer School | Mathify Ltd * 2022, Summer School Assistant (Y12 STEM Potential & Y9 Science ) | ICL * 2022 - 2023, Programming Tutor for First Year Computing Students ([PPT](https://www.imperial.ac.uk/computing/current-students/course-admin/noticeboards/first-year/overview/)) | ICL * 2021 - 2022, I-Explore Module Designer for ‘Designing Interactive Visualisations for Education’ | ICL ## Work Experience (excl. Teaching) ***Research Assistant | 2024 | UCL Knowledge Lab | London*** * Supervisor: [Prof. Manolis Mavrikis](https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/48731-manolis-mavrikis) * [EU TransEET Project](https://transeet.eu) * Designing a constructivist study involving blending Maths, Music and Movement in a Coding activity for Primary Education * Also, attempting to derive higher-order constructs from granular log data, to simplify logging and authoring of automated feedback for exploratory learning objects (ELOs) ***Software Engineering Intern | 2022 | [Imperial Visualisation](https://impvis.co.uk) | South Kensington, London*** ***Application Security Engineering Intern | 2019 | Santander | Milton Keynes*** ## Projects * 2024, Podcastify AI: A personalised podcast generation app with spaced repetition, for the Apple watch *(group)* * 2024, Novel Mathematical Learning Items & Metadata Tagging Systems * Eg. [3D VTuber avatars explaining mathematical concepts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlGZAr_OMNI) * Eg. RPG-style questions, accompanied by AI generated scene-setting images and interactive game-like Desmos graphs * 2023, [Athena](https://pitch.com/v/ATHENA-a-brief-demonstration-of-ideas-fwkvnm/4f4939e6-c70c-486e-a2fa-412340d7e0e2): A Modular Learning Content Management System and Authoring Tool (cancelled) * 2023, ChicBot: An Interactive Web-Application for Recommending Fashionable Clothing *(group)* * 2022, WACC Compiler: A Compiler For The WACC Language - A Variant of the While Family (using Scala and Parsley) (4 person group project, tackled as a pair and received an A) * 2022, Mirror: Supporting Executive Dysfunction-Related Time Blindness *(group)* * 2021, Adding Functionality to the PintOS Operating System *(group)* * 2021, ARM11 Assembler/Emulator *(group)* * 2020, StopUnderthinking: A note-taking and personal journaling web-application ## Certifications * 2023, [Certified Kubernetes Application Developer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Native_Computing_Foundation#Kubernetes_certification_and_education) | Linux Foundation and Cloud Native Computing Foundation ## Awards * 2024, 4th Place @ [Global Mechanistic Interpretability Hackathon](https://alignmentjam.com/sprint/mechint) *(group)* * 2024, 3rd Place @ [LauzHack](https://lauzhack.com) *(group)* * 2024, Exceptional Dissertation Achievement, UCL IOE * 2024, 1st Prize @ ‘AI & Assessment Challenge’, UCL IOE * 2023, Corporate Partnership Programme Award (Dissertation), ICL ## Guest Lectures * 2024 & 2025, Media Ecology, Communicating Computer Science in Schools, ICL