Curriculum Vitae

More details can be found on my LinkedIn probably.

Education

University of Oxford (2024-current/2029)

MSc (2024-2025) year in Neuroscience with 2 research rotations, based at Keble College

DPhil/PhD in (computational) neuroscience in the Department of Pharmacology

Supervision: Adaptive Decisions Lab (Prof Abhishek Banerjee)
Full PhD funding by Clarendon through the Medical Sciences Division and The Queen’s College

Imperial College London (2023-2024)

MSc in Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Computing

GRADE: First
modules: Introduction to Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Computational Neurodynamics, Deep Graph-Based Learning, Ethics Fairness and Explanation in AI, Introduction to Symbolic Artificial Intelligence, MSc AI Software Engineering Group Project, Mathematics for Machine Learning, Python Programming

University College London (2019-2023)

MSci (Hons) - Master in Science, Psychology and Language Sciences

GRADE: First
Year 4: Research Pathway
Some modules: Neural Computational, Topics in Neurobiology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Calculus & Linear Algebra, Intermediate Statistical Methods, Introduction to Deep Learning for Speech and Language Processing, Brain Stimulation…

Lycee Charles Peguy Paris 11 (High School, 2016-2019)

French Scientific Baccalaureate, with Further Maths (Bac S Spe Maths)

PhD student in computational neuroscience at the University of Oxford (Oct 2025 - current)

MSc Research Rotation Student in the Cragg Group at Oxford (May 2025 - August 2025)

fast-scan cyclic voltammetry (FCV), voltage sensor, dopamine neurotransmission in striatum

MSc Research Rotation Student in the Adaptive Decisions Lab at Oxford (Jan 2025 - April 2025)

Presented a poster at the 14th Oxford Neuroscience Symposium: “Fast and slow sensory cortical dynamics during reversal learning”.

SCGB Research Fellow in Computational Neuroscience at Simons Foundation (Sept 2022-Sept 2023)

Awarded an undergraduate researcher fellowship grant to work on a supervised research project in the Gatsby Unit (UCL)
Presented a poster in the SURF Research Symposium (April 17, 2023) in NYC
Supervisor: Dr Brendan Bicknell (Gatsby Unit & Häusser Lab)
Project: Dendritic computations in spiking neural networks for sound localisation

MSci Research Intern in Neural Plasticity and Crossmodal Reorganisation at UCL (from Sept 2022)

SDE Intern at Amazon (July-Sept 2022)

Joined the Selection Contribution Platform (SCP) organisation for 3 months in London.
Skills: Java, Unit Testing, Load Testing, Technical Writing, AWS SQS, AWS S3

Research Placement in AI Engineering Research at Imagination Technologies (July-Sept 2021)

Research Intern & BSc Thesis Student in the Affective Brain Lab at UCL (May 2021 - April 2022)

BSc Thesis: “Information Sharing: Influence of News Instrumentality, Valence and Uncertainty” (Grade: 82; 9,986 words)
Supervisors: Prof Tali Sharot (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL-MIT), Valentina Vellani (PhD candidate)
Assisting in other projects of PhD candidate Valentina Vellani (see LinkedIn for more info)

Spring Tech Insight Intern at Amazon (April 2021)

Offered a place to attend a 3-day tech insight programme from Amazon, followed by a mentorship scheme.

Student Researcher in NLP Project Team at UCL AI Society (Dec 2020 - March 2021)

Left to focus on studies/exams + because of the project’s next stage being business-level (and my current focus being on learning NLP for now!)

Research Mentee/Intern in Natural Language Processing (Nov 2020 - May 2021)

Project: “Developing a Segmentation Pipeline to Characterise and Quantify Radiomic Features of NSCLC CT Scans”
Mentor: Zihao Fang, UCL PhD Candidate in Biomedical Engineering

Undergraduate Research Assistant in the LangCogLab at UCL (Sept 2020 - August 2021)

at the UCL Language & Cognition Lab (Faculty of Brain Sciences, Dept of Experimental Psychology)

Media Officer of the UCL Neuroscience Society (March 2020 - March 2021)

Responsible for managing:
- the UCL NeuroSoc Facebook Page(>5k likes, 5.4k followers)
- the Instagram account (1,378 followers, +673 since March 2020 / during my position)

computational/programming: Python, R, Java, MATLAB (basic), Deep Learning Frameworks (PyTorch, Keras, scikit-learn, Tensorflow 1), SQL (basic), Git (Basic), speech science software (PRAAT, ELAN and others), MS Office, exposure to AWS
languages: French (Native), English (Fluent), Turkish (Native), German (Intermediate Writing), Latin (Basic Writing)

(PhD funding) Clarendon Fund Scholarship through the Medical Sciences Graduate School Studentship (2024-2029). The PhD studentship covers course fees in full, and a grant for living expenses totalling £20,780 per year for the duration of the fee liability, normally 3.5 years (Oct 2025 - March 2029)
Study Grant for the Trinity term of 2025 awarded by the Keble Association (associated with Keble College) for attendance at the UK Neural Computation conference (10-11 July 2025) hosted by Imperial College London (£314) (July 2025)
FKNE Scientific Exchange to ENS (Paris, 10-12 Feb 2025)
James Martin Graduate Scholarship for tuition fees at Keble College (£9,000) (2024)
The Corporate Partnership Programme MSc Group Project Prize for our MSc AI group project (£50) (2024)
UCL Faculty Undergraduate Scholarship for Excellence (£3,000) (2021)
Nomination for the BPS Cognitive Psychology Undergraduate Project Prize (2022)
Jackson Lewis Scholarship Award for Best 2nd Year Student in the Faculty (£200) (2021)
Dean’s List for Year 2 (2021) & Year 3 (2022)
Academic Excellence Scholarship from VUAmsterdam for their summer term (800euros) (2021)
Student Achievement Prize for overall performance in my first year (2019/20; £50) and my third year (2021/22; £100)
Nominated by the Board of Examiners for the competitive UCL Faculty Undergraduate Scholarship for Excellence (2020)