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Building AI that sees through news, maps the environment, and occasionally plays piano. Currently advancing multimodal news analysis and scene detection at the intersection of AI and societal impact.
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About Me
M.Phil. researcher and Research Support Officer (RSO) at the University of Malta, continuing research into news video analysis through the TMMU project. My work combines scene detection, facial recognition, OCR, and AI tools for understanding broadcast media at scale.
When I'm not working on my research, I work at the Environment & Resources Authority (ERA), training plant recognition models from satellite imagery, building geoportals, and making Malta's habitat mapping more intelligent.
When I'm not debugging models or reading papers, I'm probably playing piano, cleaning up Malta's coast with Zibel NGO, or fine-tuning a chatbot that texts like me.
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Work & Study
Full-Time Research Support Officer
University of Malta
- Developing a web-based AI news analysis suite for bias detection
- Built a RAG chatbot over 31,000+ sports articles with evaluation tracer
- Designed multimodal relevance scorer using explainable AI
- Aggregated 500,000+ news articles into searchable internal database
- Presented live demos at conferences
Treasurer & Organiser
Google Developer Group (GDG) Malta
- Co-organising technical events and developer meetups
- Managing financial planning and treasury for the local community
Part-Time Environmental Officer
Environment & Resources Authority (ERA)
- Building a web geoportal with ArcGIS Developer & React
- Training plant recognition models from satellite and drone imagery (YOLOv5)
- Researching AI methods for automated habitat mapping
- Developed Google Earth Engine guidelines for satellite data analysis
M.Phil. in Artificial Intelligence
University of Malta
- Full-time research programme in the Faculty of Information and Communication Technology
- Route: Artificial Intelligence
- Expected completion: May 2029
- TMMU: continuing research into news video analysis
M.Sc. in ICT, Artificial Intelligence
University of Malta
- Thesis: Queryable Computer Vision Analysis of News Videos
- Scene detection, face recognition, OCR, and chatbot pipeline
- 90 ECTS, EQF Level 7
Part-Time Research Support Officer
University of Malta
- Research on facial attributes for teaching
- Trained and compared Facial Expression Recognition (FER) models
- Developed drowsiness detection system
Professional Diploma in UX Design
ICE Malta
- Usability testing, personas, journey maps, prototyping with Figma
Volunteer Cleaning
Zibel NGO
- Coastal cleanup and environmental conservation missions along the coast
B.Sc. IT (Hons), Artificial Intelligence
University of Malta
- First Class Honours, Dean's List
- "Best ICT Project with Social Impact" award
- Thesis: Automatic Analysis of News Videos, face detection, OCR, tracking
Deep Learning & AI Certifications
Future Learn & Udemy
- AI for Earth Monitoring (Copernicus data, TensorFlow, Remote Sensing)
- Deep Learning CNNs (YOLO, ResNet50, Face Verification, MTCNN)
Company Secretary
P3NTALOGY (Startup - JAYE Programme)
- Preparing technical reports, minutes, and administrative logistics
- Logo design and asset creation using Adobe Photoshop
Current Work
Research, community, and web projects
Research in progress
TMMU · AI Research
M.Phil. research · UoM
ResearchTMMU · News Video Analysis
A research project continuing the study of news video analysis through artificial intelligence and multimodal methods.
Projects
Open-source code and fun projects
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Timezone
Malta · Central European Time
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