Comprehensive security platform that protects people from AI-enhanced social engineering attacks

Inception Studio is a non-profit that curates a community of the most exceptional entrepreneurs and builders working in AI. We organize exclusive cohort retreats and other events to propel our members on their entrepreneurial journeys.

I had the honor of co-teaching CS243 (Program Analysis and Optimization) with Jeff Ullman three times. In 2014, I had the highest teaching evaluations for that course in the last ten years.I was the Project Mentor and Industry Liaison for CS224V: Conversational Virtual Assistants with Deep Learning.I am teaching a brand-new class in Winter 2024: CS224G (Apps With LLMs Inside). This course covers the practical aspects of building applications that utilize foundational models.

I was the Guest Lecturer and Project Mentor for CS294/194-196: Responsible GenAI and Decentralized Intelligence, with Prof. Dawn Song and Prof. Matei Zaharia.

UnifyID acquired by Prove

We are building a revolutionary identity platform based on implicit authentication. Our solution allows people to identify themselves in a unique way that is extremely difficult to forge or crack. Best of all, we are doing it in a way that respects user privacy.

As CTO, I was responsible for all things technical at Moka5. I defined the technical vision, roadmap, and product architecture. I evangelized the technology and company at industry events, trade shows, with the media, and on social networks. I recruited and hired many of Moka5's superstar engineers, and mentored many junior engineers to help them reach their full potential. I directed engineers and QA to build the right product the right way, and led by example. I never got too far away from the code - I personally implemented large swaths of the product and focused on the most difficult, critical, and technically challenging components.As Founder, I was involved in almost all aspects of the business, from sales, marketing, product management, administrative, investor relations, corporate IT, website, social media, even assembling Ikea furniture and crimping Ethernet cables :-).

Formerly known as SkyBlue Technologies.

My research was in the broad area of software systems, specifically around program analysis, compilers, and virtualization. My Ph.D. thesis "Context-Sensitive Pointer Analysis using Binary Decision Diagrams" won the Arthur L. Samuel Thesis Award for Best Thesis at Stanford. You can read more about it in Chapter 12 of the Dragon Book.

I worked on the IBM product Java JIT compiler, interacting with groups in Toronto, New York,Hursley, and Haifa. I implemented a context-sensitive sampling profiler and developed thetechnique of partial method compilation.