Digital colonialism: An analysis of Facebook’s role in the Rohingya genocide

This article analyses how Facebook played a critical role in progression of the Rohingya Genocide through systematic failures in content moderation and platform design. It applies Gregory Stanton’s Ten Stages of Genocide to demonstrate how platform dynamics catalysed the progression of offline violence against the Rohingya.

February 2025 · Harrison Oates

Disaggregating Daily Precipitation Data 1990 to 2022 into Half-Hourly Intervals Using LSTM Models

This paper applies long short-term memory models to precipitation disaggregation. In particular, it shows promising results in the Australian context, reducing error compared to previous attempts by around 30%.

December 2024 · Harrison Oates, Nayan Arora, Hong Gic Oh, Trevor Lee

Theorem Provers: One Size Fits All?

This paper compares the Coq and Idris2 interactive theorem provers to provide a qualitative evaluation of their performance via a proof of the correctness of insertion sort. The paper’s key contribution is comparing these systems through a user experience lens, rather than purely the underlying logic upon which the system relies.

November 2023 · Harrison Oates, Geun Yun, Nikhila Gurusinghe