I'm a cofounder of Gofogo.com (formerly Firebird), a startup helping people plan for early retirement.
Before that, I spent my career working for several different tech companies in San Francisco and Seattle:- Software Engineer at Google Research (San Francisco) and YouTube (San Bruno).
- Principal Applied Scientist at Microsoft (Redmond), involved in generative deep learning for music creation and sound understanding.
- Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Zillow Group (Seattle). I worked on recommendation systems for real estate.
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Cruise (San Francisco). I worked on generative AI for NPCs in a simulated self-driving car environment.
I was a student of Douglas Hofstadter at Indiana University in Bloomington, at the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, where I completed a joint Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science, with a minor in Music.
My dissertation describes my project Musicat, a computer model of music cognition in the specific domain of melody hearing and analogy-making. For more information on this and other projects, see the Research page.
In addition to my dissertation work, I have collaborated with Christopher Raphael at IU on several music informatics projects. I have also worked as a summer intern at both Microsoft Research and Google Research on music-related projects.
See my CV for more info.