Sydney · 2026
I work on technology to combat gender-based violence.
I'm Dan, a software engineer at Canva working on AI safety and privacy. Outside work I focus on technology-facilitated abuse, especially AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery and the use of AI in family-violence decisions.
Now building · what-is-this-image Now reading · the overstory Now cooking · rosemary focaccia Now building · what-is-this-image Now reading · the overstory Now cooking · rosemary focaccia
Why this focus
Deepfake detection and preventing AI-generated intimate-image abuse get treated as one problem. They're distinct, and the second draws far less research attention.
I work on the second: provenance and detection tooling for AI-generated intimate-image abuse.
more on the research Current work
What I'm building
Lately
Out of the kitchen
Have a look around