I am interested in the intersection of Natural Language Processing and Public Health. In line with this interest, the focus of my PhD is to investigate how Twitter data can be used to quantify adherence to protective behaviours over the COVID-19 pandemic.
Interests
- Infectious disease epidemiology
- Machine learning
- Natural language processing
- Large language models
- Social media analytics
Education
PhD Infectious Disease Epidemiology, 2025
Imperial College London, UK
MSc Advanced Analytics, 2021
University of Cape Town, South Africa
BCom Mathematical Statistics, 2018
Stellenbosch University, South Africa