My name is Jenn and I currently live in Melbourne, Australia.

I sit within the Faculty of Arts at Monash University within the School of Media, Film and Journalism. My thesis is currently titled “Making Parliament Accessible”. I am in the final year of my PhD, which means I have completed my data collection and am writing up my results.

I use large language models (Llama 3.1 8B, Mistral Small 3.1 24B, and Claude 4 Opus) to write government bill explainer documents (explanatory memoranda) using the text of specific federal parliamentary bills. I am interested in finding out whether the language models are capable of writing this information to a more understandable level than what currently exists, and if so, what gets changed in the process of doing so. I use python for this project.

My hobbies include: reading, target archery (barebow), cycling, dancing (balboa), knitting, and playing D&D (I'm a half-orc rogue). I like to draw using my iPad and I have made art for myself and for mods of games.

Presentations and publications: https://github.com/feinna/publications_and_presentations

Teaching: https://github.com/feinna/teaching

Dino Fancie: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2665501622

Digital art made for the Dino Fancie mod of Sentinels of the Multiverse. Dino Fancie adds a dinosaur called Bonnie to the game as hero that you can play, and an environment, The Grand Ball, that you can play in.