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Cupertino, CA, US

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Seeking to serve pilgrims and improve their journeys

San Francisco, CA, US

The purpose of technology is to increase people's creativity, productivity, wellness, and generally happiness, preferably for everyone non-zero sum. And great teams build great technology. I've enjoyed informally advising founder friends for about a decade now, and am finally stepping into my first investor role with Dash. My goal is still the same as it.

Chicago, Illinois, US

Mentoring wonderful companies coming out of the UChicago student and research ecosystem.Includes our Data and AI accelerator - Transform. Fun fact: both Polsky and Transform are among the most active 15 AI and data investors in the last 6 months (as of Sept 2023, Pitchbook)!

San Francisco, California, US

Jasper is the leading Generative AI Content Platform.Stood up our stellar AI team, which shipped the AI Engine (modular infra to serve the best model per use case), integrated closed and open source models, and the experimentation platform - a key to personalize outputs to user preferences. Also started and authored our patent program, and pushed the.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Built up AI Success, government vertical, data science, and system architecture teams. Until it became too large, had planned strategies and partnerships for most accounts in DataRobot Government, including piloting a partnership which would become a top 3 company partnership, and leading vertical’s “most successful account” which became a reference for.

Chicago, IL, US

I annually teach "Diplomacy & Defense," a simulation-centric graduate seminar focused the skills of collaborative intelligence to build policies and plans for complex, multi-agency policy cases. In Spring 2018, students created an impressive reconstruction plan for Syria across security, governance, development, and funding teams, working across.

US

Clients ranged from public sector to technology innovators. Have served on new strategies to improving operations.Selected highlights:-Developed a regional and business function strategy for an equipment manufacturer, aiming to save 5% cost and increase revenue 9%-Developed high level strategy and capability/speed metrics for satellites R&D-Oversaw 2.

Washington, DC, US

Obama Administration appointeeAdvisor to the Under Secretary of the Navy, key staffer supporting the “COO” of the Navy and Marines with anything she was facing, which was everything (strategy, operations, acquisitions, Congress, tech, etc.). Promoted from role in Stability Operations and Humanitarian Affairs office, White House Defense Fellow. -Awarded.

My first startup, which failed. Most co-founders and team based out of the MIT Media Lab.I learned a ton, e.g. which technologies need government to support them and how (led to my advocating DoD to fund disaster tech via MIT LL), that I need to learn how business works even for public service, which later led to me joining McKinsey, and to not be afraid.

Washington, DC, US

Developed a predictive program to harness the "retweetability of political tweets" including a sub-program to automatically process the contents of images within tweets. Dealt with complex semantics problems. Used Python

New Haven, CT, US

Led discussion sections for "American Economic History" with Prof. John J Wallis, "International Politics of the Middle East" with Emma Sky (F13, S13), and "Approaches to International Security" (F12), which additionally focused on students' analytical writing skills. Students debated topics, performed current event simulations, and tied topics back into.

New Haven, CT, US

Led a small team to evaluate the efficacy of Yale's international education initiatives. Qualitative and quantitative data utilized.

Washington, DC, US

Ann Arbor, Michigan, US

Researched post-war economic and social development in Vietnam. Thereafter, visited other Southeast Asian countries.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Reconstructing Law After War

Bachelors, Political Science, Arabic/Islamic Studies