Wilson is PhD Candidate and Research Assistant within the Justice Health Research Program at the School of Population Health, UNSW under the co-supervision of Dr. George Karystianis and Prof. Tony Butler. His PhD research involves implementing text mining on child maltreatment narratives for information extraction and analysis. Alongside his PhD, he works on several other projects including creating a database for PubMed abstracts on epidemiological criminology and self-harm and suicidal events from police narratives.

Over the last few years, Wilson has been building interpersonal relationships for collaboration within the Indonesian Australian community. He is a member of INDERA (Indonesian Network of Doctoral and ECR in Australia) and have collaborated with the ex-Minister of Health of Indonesia, Prof. Nila Moeloek, resulting in several media coverage about risk factors of stunting, a renowned public health focus in Indonesia. Other external projects include national alcohol consumption and malnutrition risk factors in Indonesian adolescence and young people based on a national survey.

Through all of his work, Wilson strives to investigate cross-disciplinary methods of implementing technology such as AI on sensitive health data to provide evidence to create impactful positive changes.