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I'm currently working at a startup working on ~intelligence~. If you're interested in program synthesis, we are hiring! I'm trying to answer the questions:

1. How are people and natural intelligences so data and compute efficient?
2. How do we use these insights to inform AI research?
3. How do we ensure advances in AI = advances for the average person?

Projects

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Thesis

How can we model people's flexible and efficient inductive reasoning ability? In my thesis, I propose two hypotheses: people may operate over an incredibly vast language which is made tractable via a strong bottom-up proposal model, or people may learn task-specific languages to reason over.

LARC

Dataset and analysis of crowd-sourced "language-complete" descriptions of 100s of tasks, as well as language-informed program synthesis results.

Acquacchi

A very heuristic-heavy chess engine in C.

Resume

This website is mostly intended for academic / professional purposes, so here is my resume:

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Master of Engineering, Computation and Cognition

May 2024 | GPA: 5.0/5.0

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Cognitive Science

May 2023 | GPA: 4.9/5.0

Relevant coursework: Algorithms, Signal Processing, Matrix Methods for Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Advanced Natural Language Processing, Tissue vs. Silicon: Differences in Machine Learning

Extracurriculars: MIT Track and Field and Cross Country (U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Men's Scholar-Athlete of the Year 2022), MIT Class of 2023 Class Council (Vice President 2019-2020)

Experience

Stealth

September 2024 – Present

Founding Research Engineer

Apple

May 2022 – August 2022

  • Designed and implemented semi-supervised training pipeline for Siri from high-risk production data
  • Generated large-scale datasets of failing interactions and recreated the outcome in an offline environment

X, The Moonshot Factory (Google X)

February 2022 – May 2022

  • Implemented state-of-the-art neural-guided program synthesis engine
  • Ran hundreds of experiments across thousands of machines to document program performance
  • Outlined approach to combine program synthesis methods with completely neural sequence-to-sequence models

John Deere

June 2021 – September 2021

  • Developed computer vision system to identify corn kernels in a noisy production environment
  • Modeled and used reinforcement learning methods to automate advanced skid steer maneuvers
  • Collaborated with PhD students on a daily basis to ensure solid theoretical bases for models

Cloud Canaries

January 2021 – May 2021

  • Created a data pipeline to robustly store large scale customer data for efficient search
  • Built a forecasting system to predict Service Level Agreement compliance for various cloud computing providers

Contact

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