Hello! I'm an AI researcher and behavioural scientist in the Tools for Thought team at Microsoft Research. I study the psychology of human–AI interaction: how increasingly capable AI systems shape human cognition, behaviour, and society—from overreliance and cognitive deskilling to the sociotechnical dynamics of AI adoption—and how to design AI to protect and augment thinking, including in collaborative work. See my teammate's 2025 TED talk for our team's perspective. I bring a multidisciplinary background bridging research, product, and governance, including prior research in neuroscience, applied behavioural science at the Behavioural Insights Team, and policy at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology.

My research has had direct product and policy impact. At Microsoft, my work has shaped enterprise AI adoption practices, company-wide thinking on designing AI to support metacognition and appropriate reliance, approaches to integrating AI into education, and the design of the Teams Meeting Facilitator agent. During the COVID-19 pandemic, my work on a national-scale field RCT increased vaccinations in a cohort of ~2.3 million people across England.

Human thinking and behaviour is what I care most about, and, increasingly, how we steer advanced AI toward long-term societal flourishing. I love running 0-to-1 projects, from prototype-driven, design-led research to complex field experiments that make contact with real-world policies and practices.