I'm a PhD student in Natural Language Processing (NLP) at Durham University focussing on applying big data to tackle antimicrobial resistance and other critical public health threats in veterinary medicine
- PetBERT: A veterinary-focused transformer model for analyzing free-text electronic health records (EHR).
- Investigating diagnostic certainty and antimicrobial resistance using 10M+ animal EHRs in collaboration with SAVSNET.
- Exploring the correlation between antimicrobial use and behavioral changes in animals.
- Published three papers as an undergrad
- Teaching NLP to master's students, from beginner Python coders to advanced computer science cohorts.
- Multiple awards in public speaking
- Sentence transformers and their use in domain-specific NLP tasks.
- Enhancing ICD-11 classification with word embeddings and transformers.
- Causal language modeling to uncover hidden relationships in healthcare data.
- Programming: Python, PyTorch, HuggingFace Transformers
- Data Science: Big Data Processing, Named Entity Recognition, Multi-Label Classification
- Research: Statistical Analysis, Ethical Data Usage, Applied Bio NLP
I'm always happy to collaborate, discuss exciting research ideas, or just have a casual chat about NLP, education, or science communication!
Feel free to reach out through my personal website or Linkedin.