I want to understand the world, in the broadest possible sense. I enjoy thinking about math, physical sciences, computer science, economics, dynamical systems, but also about classical music, aesthetics, and philosophy. I write at https://www.moderndescartes.com/
Tech Lead of a research team investigating olfaction using machine learning. Led a human olfaction validation trial of our ML models. Codebase steward and engineering/research mentor.
Working member of the Climate Diligence Group, evaluating impact, scale, GTM strategy, and technical feasibility of proposed climate mitigation/adaptation projects involving chemistry and ML.
Python readability/ML mentor and approver @ Google, reviewing over 100,000 lines of code authored by hundreds of researchers and engineers from across Google.
Launched AutoGraph, a Python compiler that transforms TensorFlow code into performant CPU/GPU/TPU instructions. Wrote "Better Performance with tf.function and Effective TF 2, two popular essays/documentation on TensorFlow 2.
Created Minigo, an open source, clean-room replication of AlphaGo Zero.
