Press & Public Voice

Eighteen years of being asked to explain it.

From a national newspaper feature as an undergraduate in 2008 to Forbes in 2025 — the times the work was picked up by someone other than me.

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2025

Healthcare AI
Featured Insight · November 2025

AI Makes Eye Exams a Gateway to Whole-Body Wellness

William Haseltine’s Forbes column featured our oculomics survey as a healthcare-AI breakthrough — using non-invasive retinal imaging as a window into systemic health biomarkers.

Read on Forbes →

2023

Generative AI, before it was everywhere
National Press · July 2023

“AI Creates First Love Song”

Coverage of our work on AI lyric generation and computational creativity — reported while generative AI was still a novelty rather than a news category.

Read in The Sun →  ·  University release →
Invited Talk · 2023

Contextualised Attention Embeddings at Thomson Reuters Labs

Invited to speak at both the London and India research labs. Thomson Reuters’ own ML engineering blog wrote the talk up.

Read the TR Labs write-up →  ·  The collaboration →

2021 – 2022

Industry partnerships and algorithmic accountability
Radio Appearance · BBC Radio 4

Emojional: The Logic of Emoji Embeddings

BBC Radio 4 approached us about Emojional, a paper on the mathematical modelling of emotional communication in digital spaces — authored by a final-year undergraduate I supervised.

Broadcast segment — no public archive link available.
Public Discourse · 2021

Twitter’s Algorithm Favours the Political Right

My own write-up analysing algorithmic fairness and the unintended political leanings of social-media recommendation systems.

Read the article →
Trade Press, Australia · 2022

“Reaching Gen Z: A New Tool for Marketers”

Trade coverage of the eBay multi-modal hypergraph work — selected by eBay’s global leadership as a Top 3 Leaders’ Choice Award winner from 2,000+ submissions, and an ACS Digital Disruptors Award winner.

Read in B&T →  ·  The paper →
University Press · June 2021

RoleCatcher: Helping Our Students

How an Innovation Voucher partnership with FinTex Ltd. built a CV-matching engine with automatic cover-letter generation — while LLMs were still in their infancy.

Read the story →  ·  The engagement →
Regional Press · 2021

Twitter Research Shows Rise in Pandemic Depression

Coverage of our work mining community depression dynamics on social media during COVID-19 — subsequently published in IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems.

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Partnership Announcement · November 2021

Horus Security Consultancy Partners with Essex

The launch of the security-intelligence partnership. The research engineer I recruited onto it went on to a Data Scientist role at 3 UK.

Read the announcement →  ·  The engagement →

2008

The first one
National Press, India · Front Page

“World logs into local lad’s search engine”

Reporter Animesh Bisoee interviewed me one-to-one for the Hindustan Times about ThinkSearch, the localised search engine I built as an undergraduate. It ran in my city’s edition in August 2008. Eighteen years later, I still work on retrieval.

See the clipping and the story →
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