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.

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Work

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Hyperpriors

Director

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NEOS Life Insurance Group

Head of Artificial Intelligence

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Source Localisation

Chief Technical Officer

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University of Sydney

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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Murdoch University

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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Education

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Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Psychology & AI

University of Western Australia

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Psychology (Double Major)

University of Western Australia

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Certificates

Prompt Engineering Specialisation

Vanderbilt University

Advanced Prompt Engineering

Vanderbilt University

AI Fundamentals & Ethics

DAIR.AI

Data Governance with Databricks

Datacamp

Financial Markets (Honors)

Yale University

Quantitative Modeling

Yale University

University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

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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

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Projects

Australian Legislation Interpretation Tool

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

Critical Minerals Search Platform

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

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