Liam Moss, a second-year student in NCI’s BA (Hons) in Computing, has
recently had great success at HackIreland 2024. Along with his teammates
Eric Yuelai Sin, Robby Linson and Luke Redmond, he designed an innovative
tool to detect and explain bias in digital content, using advanced NLP and
reinforcement learning. ‘Neutralise’ won a Runners Up prize of €3000 in this
highly competitive hackathon.

Liam’s responsibility was back-end development, integrating Neutralise’s
PoliticalBiasBERT model with GPT-driven reinforcement learning, and creating
robust APIs with FastAPI for real-time analysis and data caching.

“It was a challenging journey,” said Liam. “I stayed up until 6am, fueled by a
lot of caffeine, and faced plenty of stressful moments. But every struggle
made the victory even sweeter, and I'm immensely proud of our team's
resilience and collaboration, which helped us secure the runner-up position.”

Taking place at DogPatch Labs in CHQ, other sponsors for this event
included OpenAI, Intercom, Stripe, Patch, NDRC and Tines. All the
organisation was through HackIreland.

Liam commented: “I’m so grateful to everyone involved. I’m proud to be part
of such a vibrant community of innovators and excited for what the future
holds!”

One of his lecturers in the School of Computing at NCI, Emer Thornbury
noted how proud everyone in the College is of Liam: “It’s just brilliant to see
him challenging himself and do so well. It’s also a tribute to him that he took
on this competition in addition to his coursework. When we were chatting
after the competition, he told me that there were technical skills essential for
applying that he had competency in because of his studies at NCI, which is
great to hear. I wish him every future success!”