About me

I’m a final-year PhD Candidate in Computer Science at University College Dublin with a background in Experimental Psychology.

My research is interdisciplinary in nature, using techniques from both psychology and computer science. In psychology, I study how people think about and predict unexpected events, and how features of prior events such as sentiment and controllability influence these judgments. For this work, I have received an Early Career Publication Award from the European Society for Cognitive Psychology which is awarded to one PhD student and one post-doc per year. On the computational side, I use the transformer language models BERT and GPT-2 to model human behaviour, and explainability methods to learn more about both the models and human behavior.

More broadly, I’m interested in how people reason and make decisions in real-world contexts, and how we can leverage advances in data analytics and machine learning to better understand these phenomena. Likewise, I am interested in explainable AI that is well-informed by what we know about the people that use AI systems.

I will be completing my degree in Spring 2023, so please contact me if you think I would be a good fit for your lab or company!