Gareth Roberts

Accomplished Senior Research Scientist with over 10 years of experience in bridging industry and academia, specialising in cognitive neuroscience and applied AI implementations. Demonstrated success in leading AI-driven solutions as Chief Technology Officer in mining exploration and Head of AI at an insurance firm, improving underwriting precision through advanced data science and innovative problem-solving.

• Australian Legislation Interpretation Tool, Developed an Australian Legislation Interpretation Tool utilising advanced NLP techniques, LLMs, sophisticated prompting strategies, vector embeddings, and Knowledge Graphs to analyse and interpret complex legislative texts with concrete reasoning. Leveraged technical proficiency in ML algorithms to ensure ethical and accurate model design, aligning with AI ethics and governance frameworks. Proactively identified gaps in AI behavior and implemented continuous improvement strategies to enhance model performance. The project scans Australia's legislative websites for changes and automatically recomputes the vector embeddings with robust scaling capability.
• Searching for Critical Minerals Through Text, Developed a power search and multi-LLM chat tool that scans over 4TB of historical mining exploration reports submitted to the West Australian government for any block of land that the government has allowed a company to explore for minerals (referred to as an exploration tenement), ensuring alignment with business goals. It is compulsory that a company performs exploration activity and provides the results to the government in order to keep the tenement, ensuring compliance with regulatory metrics. The project currently only contains data from Western Australia (the country's largest state with very significant mining activity). The project could easily be expanded to cover all of Australia and indeed other countries, showcasing adaptability to diverse landscapes.

• Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Professional Member, #643718
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Professional Member, #2394181
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Professional Member, #100496098
• Harvard Business Review, Technical Advisory Member
• Linux Foundation, Associate Member