Curriculum Vitae

Bachelor of Science (Mathematics Major, Physics Minor) & Bachelor of Computer Science

Weighted Average Mark (WAM): 82.87, Distinction.

Selected Advanced Coursework (Postgraduate-level): Extended Algorithm Design & Analysis (HD), Computer Vision (HD), Machine Learning & Data Mining (DN).

Visiting Student (Exchange)

• Awarded the DAAD STIBET Scholarship, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service.

Higher School Certificate (ATAR: 95.9)

• Leadership & Awards: Australian Defence Force (STEM) Future Innovators Award (2023), Liebman Sustainability Award (2023), Head of Environmental Portfolio, Elected to School Executive Representative Council.

Undergraduate Research Scholar

• Evaluating high-resolution simulations from CABLE and JULES, the two land surface models used in Australian climate modelling, against Eddy Covariance flux tower observations of energy, carbon and water exchange.
• Working with large climate datasets (NetCDF) in Python to benchmark model performance across Australian sites and climate conditions.
• Supervised by Dr Anna Ukkola (ARC DECRA Fellow) and Dr Mathew Lipson.

Research Intern — Information Retrieval & Machine Learning

• irst-authored two papers accepted to EMNLP 2026 and CIKM 2026; co-authored two further papers at ACL 2026 and SIGIR 2026 with PhD researchers and faculty.
• Contributed to Rankify, an open-source retrieval and RAG toolkit (680+ GitHub stars, published at ACL 2026 System Demonstrations).
• Evaluated systems with new and standard IR metrics, analysing trade-offs in quality, robustness, and efficiency.

Research Project — Self-Referential Forward-Start Options

• First author of a theoretical paper on pricing self-referential forward-start options with Oxford researchers.
• Led the analysis of the self-referential forward-start digital put, under a manipulation-arbitrage framework.
• Proved, using the unimodality of the option's price-to-strike ratio, that every non-trivial self-consistent strike can be arbitraged, leaving only the worthless contract, which is itself arbitrage-free only below a critical multiplier.

Research Project — Quantum Approximate Optimisation Algorithm

• Studied parameter concentration phenomena in the QAOA for the Max-Cut problem across graph classes.
• Built a scalable grid-search pipeline for systematic exploration and benchmarking of QAOA parameter landscapes.
• Group supervised by Dr. Gerald Huang

Casual Academic

• Recommended by lecturer and head academic staff to lead weekly undergraduate laboratory classes in C programming.
• Collaborated with academic staff to achieve a 100% satisfaction rate in the MyExperience survey.

Independent School Canteen Operator

• Co-founded and independently ran the school canteen while completing my Higher School Certificate, catering to 350+ staff and students.
• Generated national media coverage, featuring on 9 News Australia, 2GB Radio, Radio NZ, the Sydney Morning Herald, and more.

CSIRO Undergraduate Vacation Studentship

ARC Undergraduate Research Scholarship

EMNLP 2026 Conference Travel Grant (D&I Subsidy)

DAAD STIBET Scholarship

Australian Defence Force (STEM) Future Innovators Award

Liebman Sustainability Award