Experience

Work experience

2019-present: Research Scientist

• Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
• Doctoral Candidate in the Dialogue Systems and Machine Learning Group

2018-2019: AI Consultant

• NGA Risksecure, Pretoria, South Africa
• Consultation on AI solutions
• Implementation of AI solutions
• Projects: Natural Language Processing for Risk Security, Image Classification for plant disease detection

2016-2018: Teaching assistant

• University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
• Tutorial and Practical Lectures
• Grading of Papers and Assignments
• Modules: Distribution Theory, Stochastic Processes, Actuarial Statistics\

Professional Activities

• Supervisor of the Dialogue Reward Estimation Project within the Dialogue Systems and Machine Learning group, 2021-Present
• Member of the ConvLab 3 toolkit development team, 2020 - Present
• Co-organiser of the Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS) 2022
• Lead of the PyDial Python conversion project, 2019
• Co-supervisior of BSc (Hons) Student at the University of the Pretoria, 2017

Service and leadership

• First Tech Challenge Robotics Coach at Woodhill College
• Camera Operator and TV Director at NG Church Moreleta Park
• Camera Operator, TV Director and TV Producer at Hillsong Church Düsseldorf