I am a Researcher in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and its application in healthcare. I am also interested in research that focuses on bias in language models and developing an understanding of the area. This research has provided me with a strong foundation in limitations, especially regarding the impact of bias-related research on the NZ population. I have several publications on tackling bias in high-impact venues such as IJCAI and ICLR. I have extensive experience working on multi-disciplinary projects with academic and community impact in artificial intelligence and healthcare. I gained my PhD in domain-specific language models for multi-label classification of medical text at the University of Waikato under the supervision of Professor Bernhard Pfahringer. I then worked as a Post-Doc under the mentorship of Prof Michael Witbrock (Oct 2021-Dec 2022) in AI. I also worked under the mentorship of Prof Gill Dobbie to tackle bias in large language models (Jan 2023-Dec 2024).  Since January 2025, I have been working as a Researcher at the Division of Health, the University of Waikato. 

Throughout my PhD and post-PhD, I have published several papers at the intersection of AI and healthcare, including those that directly impacted NZ society. I have also won best-paper awards for such publications. I am also interested in researching the preservation of low-resource languages in the era of technology. My research outputs published in CORE-ranking A conferences, NAACL and AACL-IJCNLP,  use deep learning models for language detection and code-switching in bilingual settings, including English-Māori language pairs. 

Additionally, I have almost a decade of experience working in the NZ healthcare sector and several years of teaching tertiary students in NZ. 

I served as an invited expert panellist on AI and healthcare with the Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor. Currently serving as an Executive Director at the NZ AI Olympiad incorporation with a focus on training the future generation of NZ AI experts on the international stage.