Mr Brian Drake

Higher Degree by Research Candidate

School of Computer Science and Information Technology

College of Engineering and Information Technology


Hi, I'm Drake!
 
I’m a biotechnologist turned ML Engineer, currently pursuing a PhD in causal AI for decision making. My current research direction is more specifically, exploring Causal AI for Education.
Alongside my research, I’m the Lead Teacher at AI Camp and work casually with Barossa Eye Clinic as a Research Engineer. I’m passionate about AI literacy, biolife sciences, and building responsible, novel AI projects.
Thanks for stopping by!

Date Position Institution name
2025 - 2025 Research Intern Australian Institute for Machine Learning, AIML
2025 - ongoing Research Engineer Barossa Eye Clinic
2025 - ongoing Head of Teaching, SA AI Camp
2024 - 2025 AI Trainer (Advanced Biology) Outlier.ai
2021 - 2023 Analytical Scientist II Agilex Biolabs

Language Competency
English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review

Date Institution name Country Title
2024 - 2025 University of Adelaide Australia Master of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
2024 - 2024 University of Adelaide Australia Graduate Certificate Of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
2023 - 2023 University of South Australia Australia Graduate Certificate of Project Management
2013 - 2019 University of Adelaide Australia Bachelor of Science

Year Citation
2025 Drake, B. (2025). LLM's in your workflow. Poster session presented at the meeting of NeurIPS 2025 Education Program.

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