I’m a Machine Learning Research Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, where I work in the Frontier AI Lab building and evaluating AI systems.
I’m also a PhD student in Computer Science at Michigan State University, where I study audio-visual speech transcription systems which work in multi-speaker settings (i.e., the cocktail party problem), advised by Professor Arun Ross.
I’m especially interested in developing technology that’s genuinely useful to people, and I enjoy building machine learning systems inspired by ideas from cognitive science.
At SEI's Frontier AI Lab, I work on practical machine learning research problems including:
I have an M.S. in Computer Science from Michigan State University, where I worked on biometric recognition systems. Before my current role, I spent time at RAND Corporation doing technology policy research — AI policy, biosecurity, autonomous systems, and technology competition. It was a good way to think about the broader implications of the things I now work on directly.
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. — Spock, Star Trek VI