Ryan is a PhD student working on the identification and extraction of bias and historical perspectives in the cultural heritage domain, as part of the Cultural AI project. His involvement in the project, and interest in the wider field, having developed over the course of completing an MSc in Data Science at UvA. Formally, he was an experienced design engineer with an interest in design optimisation, having worked as part of an interdisciplinary design team (variously remotely and on-location) on projects in the UK, Middle East, Singapore and the Netherlands.