About Zach
Zach is a current student and researcher at Adelaide University, and previous recipient of the Westpac Future Leaders Scholarship. He has watched as artificial intelligence has advanced through increased scale: larger models, more data and computing power, and sees the next frontier as developing an AI that can learn from fewer resources. Zach developed Procedural Pretraining, which reduces language-model training requirements by up to 45% and enables vision models to learn without image data, work that has been widely recognised in the field. He will undertake a DPhil with Oxford’s Torr Vision Group to deepen this research and build the expertise and global networks needed to strengthen Australia’s sovereign AI capability. His aim is to help Australia become a creator of advanced AI that is efficient, accessible and directed towards national challenges, particularly health and aged care.
