I am a research scientist who builds stuff.I work on computational intelligence in people, in machines, and between people and machines. My work spans Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, and specifically has included: -conversational agents -intelligent user interfaces -robotics -cognitive architecture -machine learning -computer vision -document recognition -pokerFor several years I managed a document recognition group at Xerox PARC, and I served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. I am the principal developer for the ScanScribe document image editor and the Visual Email application. For fun, check out my essay and after-dinner presentation for how to attack the hard problem of consciousness: http://www.saund.org/papers/cm-article-v0.3.pdfFor the 2020-2021 academic year I served as a Science & Technology Policy advisor for the U.S. Congress under the AAAS Congressional Science and Engineering Fellowship Program. I worked for Representative James Langevin (RI-2) on cybersecurity policy and cognitive security.Most recently, I began exploring the use of Large Language Models in conversational agents, and I joined a high-caliber team innovating RAG applications (Retrieval Augmented Generation) targeted to the domain of technical products and services.http://www.saund.org