I'm currently working on a new venture in the AI space (stealth).

I also run Clay VC, an angel syndicate investing in early stage startups in the creative AI space, as well as investing personally. I'm a first round investor in 20+ companies including ElevenLabs, Mistral, Lovable, Cusp and Curio AI.

I was previously a Senior Research Scientist in the Machine Learning team at DeepMind, where I worked on improving pre-training compute efficiency for multimodal foundation models.

Previously, I was a postdoc at the Dyson Robotics Lab at Imperial College London, where I worked on real-time distributed inference and abstraction in spatial / visual perception systems.

Before that, I did a PhD in neuroscience + machine learning at the Space and Memory Lab, University College London. I wrote my thesis on how the brain could implement message passing algorithms to learn quickly from new data, which might look like "replaying" memories during sleep.