About
I am an AI safety researcher and research engineer. I’m excited by the rapid advancements in AI, but concerned about the risks they pose, and I’m committed to helping mitigate them.
Recent Activity
Oct 2025 – Present
Working as a Research Engineer at AI Safety South Africa, measuring the adaptability of LLM agents as a proxy for real-world performance — in collaboration with the Science of Evaluations team at the UK AI Security Institute and funded by the UK AISI Challenge Fund.
Apr 2026
Teaching assistant for the ML4Good AI safety bootcamp.
Mar 2025 – Sep 2025
Jan – Mar 2025
Worked with AI Safety Engineering Taskforce as part of the UK AI Security Institute Bounty program for developing novel AI agent evaluations.
Background and History
I did my Master’s in Computer Science at Stellenbosch University under Marcel Dunaiski. My thesis focused on transformer-based language models for natural language processing tasks. Before that I studied Mathematics and Computer Science at Stellenbosch University.
Other Interests
Apart from working on AI, I enjoy:
- Reading
- Running, Cycling, and Hiking
- Traveling