Marlow Eliot

University College London

MSc Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development

Modules include Accountable, Transparent and Responsible AI; Deep Representations and Learning; and Probabilistic Modelling.

University of Sussex First-Class

BSc (Hons) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence

Modules included Applied Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Advanced Natural Language Engineering.

Selected to represent the university in an international COIL debate on the societal impacts of AI.

Self-supervised behaviour discovery Dissertation · 88/100

Python · PyTorch · HDBSCAN · UMAP · scikit-learn

An end-to-end pipeline that finds behavioural states in 7.4 million frames of 3D movement data from 52 tracked bumblebees, with no manual labelling. A convolutional autoencoder learns compact representations of movement, and HDBSCAN clusters them into behaviours.

A systematic architecture search cut reconstruction loss to about 1.5% of the baseline. It also showed that better reconstruction does not guarantee more stable clusters.

Evolving flocking behaviour

Python · PyBullet · evolutionary algorithms · NumPy

Rebuilt Reynolds' boids flocking model in a PyBullet physics simulation, with randomly placed obstacles so evolved behaviour could not overfit to one layout. Benchmarked four evolutionary algorithms (hill climber, microbial GA, spatial GA and island-model GA) on tuning the flock's parameters.

Proposed a stratified model that gives agents on the edge of the flock different rules from those inside it, challenging Reynolds' assumption that every agent behaves identically. It outperformed the standard model under all four algorithms.

World Vision International

Assisted a technical advisor for the Middle East and West Asia region

Built an environmental degradation database designed to be handed to AI agents. It links each environmental issue to its evidence: tracking data, surveys, studies and papers. We tested it on Armenia, to help field teams identify local issues and choose responses.

The Badger, Sussex student newspaper

Senior Print Editor & Treasurer; previously Science & Technology Editor

Ran editing and production for a monthly paper with a 1,500-copy print run and managed its budget. The Science & Technology section was nominated for Best Science & Technology Publication at the 2026 SPA Awards.

RSPCA, Huddersfield branch

Web design work experience

Reviewed the branch website and proposed a redesign of its adoption pages.