Welcome to my site! A little bit about me: currently I'm most interested in AI, theory of computation, mathematics, the mind and how they connect. I'm keen to answer questions about how we can help humans learn and communicate better, and how we can automate cognitive/academic/scientific processes.

I also love art, making things by hand, documenting my life visually, learning about old or analogue processes, and bringing people together.

I'm usually based in London, Oxford, or California. Reach out if you'd like to chat!

Yours,
Malaika

Now

studying CS at Oxford graduating 2026
bringing maker/hackathon culture to Oxford, and the UK, by running weekly co-working sessions at [orchard] and by organising Ensemble
making a large multicolour lino print
thinking about mediums of sharing information for more efficient learning

Previously

built models to give brick-and-mortar stores insights on shopper behaviour at Standard AI
helped teach girls key machine learning concepts and built projects with GirlsWhoML
ran Oxford's computing society
built a platform for events in the pandemic, used by GitHub, Google and Burning Man
various camps/programs: ARBOx (AI alignment/interpretability research bootcamp), PROMYs (number theory & combinatorics), PAIR (exploring human and artificial intelligence)

Images

Photo of people looking at monitor doing research

Projects

Do Llamas think in English?

Editing the latent space of a transformer to see if removing relevant English words affects tasks that don't rely on English knowledge (or even language knowledge), with David Quarel at ARBOx.

code

The Game of SET

Using computational methods to solve combinatorics problems based on a nerdy card game.

paper

Investigating VAE Latent Space

Visualizing high-dimensional spaces to generate images. A quick 1 day project.

code

Sparkle

Open-source multidimensional events platform.

code

Etc.

Film Photography

on a really interesting old camera

Printmaking

adventures in linocut, typesetting, and more