Oliver Wakeford

Work

Selected projects

A mix of AI consulting, technical builds, and research. These are the projects I'm most proud of.

Publication
PublicationResearch
2026

Constraint-Aware Terrain Generation

Filling in game terrain when a designer has fixed only a few key features. The work started as my BSc thesis and became a paper accepted for oral presentation at IEEE Conference on Games 2026.

Procedural GenerationGenetic AlgorithmsComputer GraphicsGames
AI engineering
AI engineering
2026

AI Lead-Generation Pipeline

An AI pipeline I built for Ace-nsi. It researches companies for Shadow AI risk exposure, finds the right decision-makers, drafts tailored outreach, and exports it straight into the CRM.

LLMsWeb ResearchAutomationSales Tooling
Client work
Client workOngoing
2025

AI Content Engine

Built an AI content system for a boutique hospitality marketing agency, serving a roster of luxury and lifestyle brands. If you can tell it is AI, it is not good enough.

AI SystemsContent StrategyNext.jsSupabase
Generative ML
Generative MLOngoing
2026

Synthetic Clinical Data with Mixtures of Experts

A master's research project adapting Mixture-of-Experts foundation models to generate synthetic multimodal clinical data that is statistically faithful and clinically plausible.

Generative ModelsHealthcare AIEvaluationFoundation Models
Information Retrieval
Information Retrieval
2026

Scientific Citation Retrieval

Given a paper, find the works it most likely cites from a 20,000-paper corpus. An ensemble of eight retrievers fused with weighted reciprocal rank fusion, tuned for NDCG@10.

Information RetrievalNLPEnsemblesEmbeddings
Deep Learning
Deep Learning
2026

VAE and DRAW, Compared

A study of two generative models on MNIST: a vanilla variational autoencoder against the DRAW recurrent model, testing what the Gaussian attention mechanism actually buys you.

Generative ModelsAttentionReproducibility
NLP
NLP
2026

Fine-Grained Emotion Classification

A deep-learning project classifying Reddit comments across the 27 emotion categories of the GoEmotions dataset, where the hard part is the overlap between subtle, related feelings.

NLPText ClassificationDeep Learning
Client work
Client workOngoing
2026

Shadow AI Exposure Assessment

Designed a cybersecurity service from scratch that helps enterprises discover and govern the AI tools their staff are already using without oversight.

AI GovernanceCybersecurityEU AI ActPre-Sales
Client work
Client workOngoing
2026

Technical AI Delivery

An ongoing engagement delivering AI and software work across several repositories for a technology client, from research and prototyping through to shipped deliverables.

AI EngineeringPrototypingDelivery
Client work
Client workOngoing
2026

Marketing Operations System

Set up the content and marketing operation for a founder's personal brand: a repeatable framework that takes raw material through to finished, on-voice output.

MarketingContent SystemsBrand Strategy