Transforming Research into Capital & Innovation.
I have directed and co-investigated a diverse portfolio of research grants totaling over £1.4 Million. My focus is on Applied AI—ensuring every pound of funding translates into tangible industrial value, whether through production-ready software, award-winning prototypes, or high-growth startup foundations.
Automated Employment Law & Industrial Relations Service
Role: Principal Investigator | Amount: £400,000
Developing a fully automated employment law service enabled by Artificial Intelligence to modernize industrial relations.
Integrated Smart Platform for Property Development
Role: Co-Investigator (Lead Academic) | Amount: £250,000
Designed a bespoke client-side application for site plan version control. The project won the Best KTP Project (SME) 2022 award for its transformative impact on office-site communications.
AI Optimization for Customer Interactions
Role: Co-Investigator (40% Stake) | Amount: £123,000
This project resulted in a model successfully deployed in BT's internal production systems and led to permanent career placements for the research associates involved.
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Automation
Role: Lead Academic (PI) | Amount: £350,000
Combining NLP and image analysis to accelerate intelligence gathering while preserving individual privacy. Model is currently active in the company's production environment.
Essex Innovation Voucher: RoleCatcher
Role: Principal Investigator | Amount: £10,000
My collaboration with FinTex Ltd. has been covered by major media outlets, serving as a success story for how university-industry partnerships can build viable AI startups from the ground up.
Microsoft Research Asia
Urban Informatics Research Fund for mining time-aware urban lifestyles. Introduced a new temporal dimension to the project applauded by MSRA leadership.
Alan Turing Institute
PICASO: Probabilistic Conceptual Spaces Sensemaking under Uncertainty. Role: Principal Investigator.
Royal Society
Pairing Scheme Fellow 2022: Researching automated and personalized reading materials for UK schools.