Research Assistant · Faculty of Information, U of T
Working with Matt Ratto and Daniel Silver on Towards Socially Grounded AI Safety through literature review, writing, analysis, and prototype development.
PhD candidate · University of Toronto · Vector Institute · SickKids · UHN KITE · T-CAIREM · Massey College
I am a Computer Science PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto and a Research Assistant at the Vector Institute, SickKids, and UHN KITE. I develop lightweight methods for noisy learning, including adaptive weighting, label correction, and targeted synthetic data generation. I also work on fairness, LLMs, VLMs, agentic AI, socially grounded AI safety, medical AI, and AI literacy and governance. I am an Education Trainee Co-Lead at T-CAIREM and a Junior Fellow at Massey College.
Based in Toronto, Canada. I am currently looking for machine learning and AI roles in New York City and Toronto.
About
My PhD research focuses on developing lightweight methods that learn from differences between training samples. LiLAW adapts the weight given to easy, moderate, and hard examples; LiNC estimates how much to trust each label and corrects likely errors; and LiBaGS selects synthetic samples that fill useful gaps near a model's decision boundary. Related work examines fairness and proper use of synthetic data.
I work across image, tabular, time-series, text, and multimodal data. Projects with SickKids and UHN KITE have included pediatric cancer surveillance and automated pain assessment in older adults with severe dementia. I have also worked on surgical intervention prediction in pediatric renal ultrasounds and understanding bias in dermatological AI systems. Other current work explores large language models, medical vision-language models, agentic healthcare systems, socially grounded AI safety, AI literacy, and hospital AI governance.
2011—Today
Experience
My current research, technical, and education roles alongside my PhD.
Working with Matt Ratto and Daniel Silver on Towards Socially Grounded AI Safety through literature review, writing, analysis, and prototype development.
Building prototypes for agentic AI systems in healthcare and working with the founders to secure investment.
Developing lightweight methods for sample weighting, label correction, fairness, time-series missingness, targeted synthetic data, and vision-language reasoning.
Working with clinical collaborators on pediatric imaging for cancel surveillance at SickKids and automated pain-monitoring projects at UHN KITE and in long-term care homes in Regina and Saskatoon.
Co-leading education, resident training, AI literacy, governance projects, and trainee programming in medicine.
Research
Publications, preprints, and active manuscripts from 2025–2026.
Teaching, literacy, and governance
I have taught Git, Unix, and Shell through the U of T Data Sciences Institute and served as a TA for neural networks, image understanding, software design, mathematical reasoning, and introductory computer science.
At T‑CAIREM, I help develop training for medical residents and other learners, help organize conferences and workshops, and support trainee mentorship and outreach.
I work on hospital AI governance, AI literacy, curriculum development, and an international living glossary for AI in medicine. I also review for conferences and journals in machine learning and medical AI.
Credentials
Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, OpenCV, NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn, Git, Linux, MATLAB, Julia, C/C++, Java, Swift, LaTeX
Contact
Email is the best way to reach me about research, teaching, speaking, or collaboration.