Projects
Autonomy, defence and biosecurity. Most of it built in a weekend; some of it kept going.
Subterranean Autonomy
Autonomous navigation for confined underground spaces
Jet-Drone Interceptor
Intercepting jet-powered Geran drones
Geotemporal Fusion Engine
Fusing reports across space and time
BioSecure → safely.bio
KYC for DNA synthesis orders
Acoustic Grid
Locating drones by sound and sight
RNA Transformer
Designing mRNA sequences with transformers and diffusion
Albed.io
Simulating the weather effects of geoengineering
AGI Regulatory Memo
Regulating the dual-use risks of AGI and artificial sentience
More to come
Additional projects in progress
Results
Hackathon results, newest first.
- Oct 2026Honourable mention
European Defence Tech Hackathon
Jet-Drone Interceptor → - Jun 2026Highest-scored project
European Defence Tech Hackathon London
Geotemporal Fusion Engine → - Apr 2026Judge
BlueDot Impact AI × Bio Hackathon
Judged biosecurity tools built over a weekend at LISA, London. BlueDot Impact is the leading talent accelerator for beneficial AI and societal resilience (10,000+ alumni). bluedot.org →
- Feb 20262nd place
European Defence Tech Hackathon London
Subterranean Autonomy → - Nov 20251st place · £3,000
def/acc Hackathon — BlueDot Impact × Apart Research
BioSecure → safely.bio → - Sep 20253rd of 200+
European Defence Tech Hackathon
Acoustic Grid → - Jul 20251st place · £1,000
SOTA Human Enhancement Hackathon
Thomas the Orb — Bayesian prior elicitation. announcement →
- 20251st place · Omi Prize
ElevenLabs × Founder House Hackathon
Real-time speech → social-insights pipeline.
- Jun 2025Technical Excellence · £500
SOTA Geoengineering Hackathon
Albed.io →
Other work
Research, tools and side projects.
Mapping mRNA Therapeutics
LLM pipeline that filters, classifies and quantifies clinical trial data on mRNA therapeutics. Replaced a $50k proprietary database.
Anti-Sophistry
Agentic coding with enforced test-driven development: tests first, test-gated changes. Built at a Google DeepMind hackathon.
Thomas the Orbthomas.gitbud.co ↗
Bayesian prior elicitation: turns expert intuitions into distributions.
Oxford Economic Recovery Project
Research assistant with Joseph Stiglitz on a global database of COVID-19 fiscal policy, used by the UN and national governments.
GitBudgitbud.co ↗
Keeps your GitHub streak alive with safe, transparent commits.
TSA Lanetsa.elitelane.co.uk ↗
Adaptive prep for the Oxford TSA admissions test.