Gareth Roberts, Ph.D

Senior AI Research Scientist
Sydney, AU.

About

Innovative Senior AI Research Scientist with over a decade of expertise, driving frontier AI development across regulated and mission-critical domains. Proven leader in delivering enterprise-scale language model solutions that enhance decision speed, reduce latency, and elevate system trustworthiness. Specializes in LLM fine-tuning, MLOps, and AI safety, with a focus on scalable and responsible AI that generates real-world value.

Work

Hyperpriors
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Director

Sydney, NSW, Australia

Summary

Led the production scaling of a GenAI prototype, optimizing deployment pipelines for 24/7 availability and significant cost reductions.

Highlights

Scaled a GenAI prototype to production using advanced MLOps, reducing latency by 30% and achieving 99.9% uptime.

Optimized deployment pipelines to deliver 24/7 availability and decrease operational costs by 20%.

Adapted infrastructure to meet shifting client goals, showcasing versatility across diverse AI applications.

NEOS Life Insurance Group
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Head of Artificial Intelligence

Summary

Directed AI strategy and implementation, significantly reducing underwriting turnaround time and ensuring ethical AI compliance.

Highlights

Reduced underwriting turnaround time by 4.4x via strategic prompt engineering, LLM fine-tuning, and RAG-based retrieval.

Led multi-disciplinary collaboration across legal, actuarial, and engineering teams to ensure ethical AI compliance.

Created sandbox environments and conducted AI safety training, fostering robust internal testing and red teaming.

Source Localisation
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Chief Technical Officer

Summary

Guided cloud and AI engineering teams to enhance mineral prospectivity mapping and boost geospatial forecasting accuracy.

Highlights

Led cloud and AI engineering teams to enhance mineral prospectivity mapping utilizing Azure HPC and satellite analytics.

Boosted geospatial forecasting accuracy by integrating deep learning, aligning exploration technology with regulatory demands.

University of Sydney
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Summary

Designed and executed novel experimental frameworks, contributing extensively to neuropsychopharmacology and brain development research.

Highlights

Designed novel experimental frameworks combining neuroimaging and behavioral data to study brain development.

Published extensively on neuropsychopharmacology, ADHD traits, and learning-by-analogy techniques.

Drove interdisciplinary collaborations across medical and educational faculties, enhancing research breadth.

Murdoch University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Summary

Mentored postgraduate researchers and founded a statewide neurotech methodologies group, advancing EEG/fMRI analytics.

Highlights

Mentored 20+ postgraduate researchers in EEG/fMRI analytics, data pipelines, and statistical modeling.

Founded and chaired the WA Neuromethods Group to advance neurotech methodologies statewide.

Education

University of Western Australia

Ph.D.

Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Psychology & AI

University of Western Australia

BA (Hons)

Psychology (Double Major)

Certificates

Prompt Engineering Specialisation

Issued By

Vanderbilt University

Advanced Prompt Engineering

Issued By

Vanderbilt University

AI Fundamentals & Ethics

Issued By

DAIR.AI

Data Governance with Databricks

Issued By

Datacamp

Financial Markets (Honors)

Issued By

Yale University

Quantitative Modeling

Issued By

Yale University

University of Pennsylvania

Issued By

University of Pennsylvania

Skills

AI & ML

GenAI, LLMs, NLP Safety, Prompt Engineering, RLHF, Red Teaming, Trustworthy AI.

Tech Stack

PyTorch, TensorFlow, HuggingFace, SpaCy, Databricks, Snowflake.

Cloud & DevOps

AWS, Azure, GCP, MLOps, Microservices, CI/CD.

Data

ETL, EDA, Bayesian Modeling, Data Governance, Scalable Pipelines.

Leadership

Stakeholder Management, Technical Strategy, Team Leadership, Workshop Facilitation.

Projects

Australian Legislation Interpretation Tool

Summary

Developed a legal text interpretation platform leveraging LLMs, vector embeddings, and Knowledge Graphs.

Critical Minerals Search Platform

Summary

Engineered a scalable multi-LLM tool for analyzing historical mining exploration reports and enabling geospatial insights.