About me
I studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge from 2023 to 2026, obtaining a double First and the Holgate-Pollard Prize for placing 2nd in my cohort. I also received the J.M. Thoday Prize for the best undergraduate research project in genetics.
I immensely enjoy solving problems, and reached the finals for selecting the United Kingdom's teams for the International Chemistry Olympiad and International Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad; I also received distinctions/top golds in the British Mathematical and Physics Olympiads, and the Freeman Dyson Prize in Physics. My team and I also won the National Cipher Challenge in 2022.
Beyond my work, I am an active chamber musician and enjoy tennis and distance running. CV
Research
Spontaneous neuronal activation · 2026–present
Lois group, Caltech
Computational modelling of spontaneous neuronal activity and its role in the restoration of learned behaviours following perturbation. Drawing on attractor network theory and Hebbian plasticity. Part of the Cambridge–Caltech exchange, funded by Caltech and St Catharine's College, Cambridge.
Viral ancestral recombination graphs · 2025–present
Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge
Scalable inference of ancestral recombination graphs for viral DNA, using Markov Chain Monte Carlo and perturbation theory. Awarded the J.M. Thoday Prize for the best undergraduate research project.
Deep learning for genome organisation · 2025–present
Hannon Group, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
Deep learning for predicting three-dimensional chromatin organisation from sequencing data, in the laboratory of Greg Hannon. Work focused on learning sequence determinants of topologically associating domains and compartment structure. Publication in preparation.
Lock-in risk benchmark for LLM systems · 2025
Supervised Program for Alignment Research
Paper under review.
Structural biology of transcription · 2024
Department Cramer, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen
Studied +1 nucleosome promoter-proximal pausing in eukaryotic transcription. Independently designed biochemical assays, and developed skills in cryo-electron microscopy. Funded by the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences.
Hidden Markov Models for fast protein kinetics · 2023
Haran Group, Weizmann Institute of Science
Inference of conformational state sequences from single-molecule FRET data using hidden Markov models. Work addressed the challenge of fast dynamics on timescales shorter than photon-arrival intervals. Funded by the Weizmann UK Foundation.
Projects
todo
Built in Rust: control your todo list. Used to learn Rust.
Cross-lingual interpretability
Oxford AI Safety Initiative, 2026
Using LoRA finetuning to understand generalisation across languages in open-source LLMs.
Multi-agent AlphaZero
Implementation of the multi-agent AlphaZero architecture, trained using JAX on GPUs.
Books and music
I am currently reading: Das Glasperlenspiel (Hesse), Incomplete Nature (Deacon), Who we are and how we got here (Reich), and Embodiment and the Inner Life (Shanahan).
My next piano recital is in October.