I am currently an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at Durham University. I am also a faculty affiliate at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (University of Toronto) and an IMH fellow at the Institute for Medical Humanities (Durham University).

Before this, I was an assistant professor (2021-2024) in the Department of Philosophy at Dalhousie University, where I also taught in the Faculty of Computer Science. Previously, I held a postdoctoral fellowship (2020-21) at Mila - Québec Artificial Intelligence Institute and the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research (Université de Montréal). I was also a postdoctoral fellow (2020-21) in the Department of Philosophy and the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (University of Toronto).

I received my PhD (2020) from the department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine. I previously received an MA (2018) in Social Science from the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at UC Irvine, as well as an MA (2016) in Philosophy from Simon Fraser University and a BA (2014) in Philosophy (Hons.) and English Literature from the University of British Columbia.

Experience

  • 2024–present
    Assistant professor, Durham University
  • 2021–2024
    Assistant professor, Dalhousie University

Education

  • 2020 
    University of California, Irvine, PhD - Logic and Philosophy of Science
  • 2018 
    University of California, Irvine, MA - Social Science
  • 2016 
    Simon Fraser University, MA - Philosophy

Publications

  • 2025
    Artificial Intelligence and the Value Alignment Problem: A Philosophical Introduction, Broadview Press

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