MrNicholas Alcorso

AI and productivity in professional work. Nick studies how AI agents change what one professional can produce. He has built a tool that labels every commit across his own projects as written by a person or by AI, sizes it, and sets it against what the AI cost. His aim is to show accounting and legal practices what AI can really achieve on their tasks, and what that means for productivity in Tasmania.

AI in tax practice. How practitioners can use AI well, and what it means for their professional obligations.

Educational technology for tax and financial literacy. Nick designs and builds games that teach how money works in Australia, from payslips and tax returns to super and HELP debt. He also builds a voice-based AI client that lets students practise client interviews.

Student belonging. Nick has researched what drives changes in undergraduate students’ sense of belonging. He used QILT Student Experience Survey data and a custom tool that tracks students over time, whose outputs feed machine-learning models.

Tax for small business and the wine industry. Including the Wine Equalisation Tax, drawing on his years in practice and his family’s roots in the Tasmanian wine industry.