CV

PhD in Neuroscience and Machine Learning.

Wellcome Trust PhD programme, Faculty of Engineering Mathematics, University of Bristol, UK.

• Applications of deep reinforcement learning to understanding human motor learning, especially with policy gradient methods (60% of PhD).
• Purely machine learning projects on improving value-based estimation methods in reinforcement learning (40% of PhD).

Contract education in Data Science and Knowledge Engineering.

Maastricht University, Netherlands.

• Undertook fundamental courses in mathematics and computer science at bachelor and master levels.

Master of Research (MRes) in Cognitive Neuroscience.

University College London (UCL), UK.

Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Psychology.

Bath Spa University, UK.

Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Neuroscience and Machine Learning.

University of Oxford (visiting), UK.

• Working on RL latent planning models of human cognitive planning.
• Collaborating with experimental neuroscientists to build a computational model of pyramidal IT and ET neurons during learning of a reward association task.

Visiting PhD Student in Neuroscience and Machine Learning.

University of Oxford, UK.

Teaching Assistant.

University of Bristol, UK.

• Oct 2021 - January 2022, Computational Neuroscience.
• Oct 2020 - April 2021, Engineering Mathematics 1.

Internship in Deep Reinforcement Learning and human vision.

Maastricht University, Netherlands.

• Working on a well-known deep RL vision architecture to subsequently model human gaze (repo).

Assistant Data Analyst.

Annex Clinical, USA.

• Analysis of a large clinical dataset to investigate the relation between anhedonia and depression in relation to clinical trial drop-out (see article).

• Wellcome Trust 8-month Transition Fund.

• Wellcome Trust 4-year PhD Scholarship.

• Dean’s list award for top 5% graduating student of the UCL Brain faculty.

• British Psychology Association award for the top psychology graduating student of Bath Spa University.