RAYO
VERWEIJ

Currently...

• A PhD candidate at the Centre for Doctoral Training in Designing Responsible Natural Language Processing at the University of Edinburgh
  • My work investigates the inclusion of children as fully-fledged research partners in the creation of NLP-based tools for education, employing the product design process as a constructionist curriculum to enable profound learning about emerging technologies such as generative AI
  • I am supervised by Prof Fiona McNeill, Dr Cara Wilson, and Dr Valentina Andries, and am affiliated with Design Informatics and the Edinburgh Futures Institute
• A trustee of Prewired, an Edinburgh charity that runs a weekly after-school coding club for young people

VerweIJzingen

ver·'wij·zing (de, v., mv: -en) "reference".

• From 2021–2025, I was the chief technology officer of Voxsio, building ethical and engaging digital health apps in partnership with the NHS
• At the 2023 Scottish AI Summit in Glasgow I hosted a workshop called “Building Inclusive AI: Language, Dialect, and Diversity” that you can watch some bits of if you're interested
• My 2021 MSc dissertation, “An Online Research Environment for Behavioural Studies into Reinforcement Learning”, can be read here
• In 2020 I built TacoTab, a web app for tabulating World Schools-style debating tournaments, for the Bard Debate Union—it still holds up quite well!

Contact

📧 rayo [dot] verweij [at] ed [dot] ac [dot] uk or 🦋 Bluesky or 👔 LinkedIn