Three-time startup starter, Y-Combinator alum, witness to the fall of San Francisco, advocate for higher standardsBut really just a curious, idea driven weirdo that loves impossible challengesThings I’ve done, most of which I still can’t believe:Published in Science and NaturePredicted explosive real-estate investments ten years out, using only publicly available data, with a precision of 99%Enabled millions of new transactions on Shopify with a novel recommender system and product classifierBuilt an RL deep net to manage hundreds of IoT devices, triaging power and reducing energy bills by millions of dollars (in 2018!)Discovered dozens of new ceramics, and soon-to-be-confirmed hundreds more, with a novel Bayesian decision tree methodSolved a longstanding imaging issue in materials science: classifying crystals with EBSD. All it took was a simple CNNBuilt the internal modeling library at a BioTech company, enabling the discovery of new diabetes treatmentsOptimized a production schedule at an industrial metal manufacturing company, reducing costs by millions of dollars yearly.