I'm Ben, a PhD student in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, based at the Oxford Robotics Institute. I'm supervised by Oiwi Parker Jones and Ingmar Posner, as part of the Parker Jones Neural Processing Lab (PNPL) and the Applied AI Lab (A2I).
Previously, I completed an MSc in Mathematical Modelling & Scientific Computing at Oxford, and a dual undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering (Western University) and Business Administration (Ivey Business School) in Canada.
Research
My work centers on decoding speech directly from noninvasive recordings of brain activity. In particular, I develop biologically-grounded generative models to synthesize realistic neural data which helps speech BCIs generalize even when real neural data is expensive and scarce.
In the past, I've also dabbled in the world of differentially private clinical data generation and efficient vision-language models (VLMs) for self-driving cars.
Slides from my oral presentations can be found here.
speech BCIs · synthetic time-series · flows · computational neuroscience · information theory
Publications
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Open-Vocabulary Mutual Information for Speech BCIs
Updates
- June 2026 Started internship as a Research Scientist at CoreWeave.
- July 2026 Attended ICML 2026 in Seoul to present at the SD4H workshop.
- Dec 2025 Attended NeurIPS 2025 and ML4H 2025 in San Diego to present MSc thesis work. (arXiv)
- Oct 2025 Started PhD in Robotics at Oxford, awarded an Engineering Science Research Grant.
- June 2025 Started ML research internship working on autonomous vehicles at Magna International, where my work on VLMs for autonomous delivery was referenced in a NVIDIA press release.
Earlier
- 2024 Completed MSc in Mathematical Modelling & Scientific Computing at Oxford.