I'm a researcher and builder working at the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence. Currently studying MSc Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Roehampton (London), with a background in Clinical Psychology (BSc Hons, London South Bank University).
My work spans from building real AI systems — autonomous research agents, custom hardware assistants, and MCP-integrated workflows — to academic research in neuroinflammation, the gut-brain axis, and psychopharmacology.
- 🔧 Built a custom AI assistant on ESP32-S3 hardware with self-hosted inference and Anthropic API integration
- 🤖 Developed an autonomous research agent using a ReAct reasoning loop with PubMed search and importance-weighted memory
- 📐 Authored a tetrad of frameworks for human-centred AI — Friction Protocol, Humanising Loop, Attunement Audit, and Handoff Threshold
- 🧬 Designed the MICROBE-D Study — a proposed RCT investigating Bifidobacterium breve CCFM1025 for depression
- 💬 Ask me about: neuro-AI, psychopharmacology, LLM interpretability, brain-computer interfaces, gut-brain axis
- 🧠 Clinical Neuroscience → Neuroinflammation, BBB dysfunction, glymphatic system
- 💊 Psychopharmacology → Drug-brain interaction modelling, MAOI mechanisms
- 🦠 Gut-Brain Axis → Microbiome-mediated mechanisms in neuropsychiatric conditions
- 🤝 AI Humanisation → Affective computing, empathetic AI, conversational agents
- 🔍 Mechanistic Interpretability → Understanding what happens inside transformers
- ⚡ Brain-Computer Interfaces → EEG-based systems, neural signal processing
| Project | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 🤖 Sol AI Assistant | Custom AI assistant on DeepSeek XiaoZhi ESP32-S3 hardware, self-hosted via xiaozhi-esp32-server with LiteLLM → Anthropic API routing |
✅ Built |
| 🔬 ReAct Research Agent | Autonomous Python agent with ReAct reasoning loop, Anthropic API, PubMed search integration, and importance-weighted memory store | ✅ Built |
| 📐 Friction Protocol | Original pedagogical framework for AI-augmented learning — bridging Polanyi, Schön, Floridi, and Vygotsky | 📄 Published in coursework |
| 🦠 MICROBE-D Study | Proposed 12-week RCT: B. breve CCFM1025 as adjunctive treatment for mild-to-moderate depression, featuring 16S rRNA sequencing and inflammatory biomarkers | 📄 Study design complete |
| 🧠 neuro-ai-bridge | Mapping neuroscientific principles onto deep learning architectures — Hebbian learning, SNNs, predictive processing, hippocampal memory | 🔧 Active research |
| 🤝 humanising-ai | A tetrad of frameworks for emotionally intelligent, human-centred AI — Friction Protocol, Humanising Loop, Attunement Audit, Handoff Threshold — with reference implementation across affective, theory-of-mind, dialogue, and explainability modules | 🔧 Active research |
| 🔍 llm-interpretability-notes | Research notes and experiments on mechanistic interpretability of LLMs — residual stream, attention circuits, SAEs, activation patching | 🔧 In progress |
| 📖 neuro-readability | Neuroscience-informed CLI tool scoring text for cognitive load and readability | 🐍 Python |
The three research repositories form a deliberate triangle:
neuro-ai-bridge— what brains do → biological learning mechanisms as inductive bias for AIllm-interpretability-notes— what models do → reverse-engineering the internal computations of transformershumanising-ai— what models should do → frameworks and implementations for AI that behaves in a way that is legible, attuned, and safely bounded
Together they triangulate a single question: how do we build AI systems that are both mechanistically understood and humanely aligned?
- Brain-computer interfaces and EEG signal processing for real-time neurofeedback
- Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) as biologically plausible learning systems
- The role of attention mechanisms as analogues to human selective attention
- Ethical frameworks for emotionally responsive AI
- Transformer interpretability via activation patching and probing classifiers
- MCP server integrations for research workflow automation
MSc Clinical Neuroscience — University of Roehampton (2025–present) Targeting Distinction | Focus: neuroinflammation, psychoneuroimmunology, psychopharmacology Key outputs: BBB & glymphatic dysfunction in Huntington's disease, B cells in MS, microglia in MND
BSc (Hons) Clinical Psychology — London South Bank University (Graduated 2025) Dissertation on empathy and emotional contagion in couples (2.2)
I'm open to research collaborations, PhD opportunities in neuro-AI or psychopharmacology, and research assistant roles. Always happy to nerd out about consciousness, computation, and the spaces in between.
"The brain is wider than the sky." — Emily Dickinson