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San Francisco, California, US

AV Behavior

Advise and enable clients in the commercialization and implementation of machine learning solutions. Product development, technical marketing, onshore/offshore talent acquisition, and GTM strategy.

Bellevue, Washington, US

Gaia Platform was a development platform for unlocking performance and productivity breakthroughs in complex robotics solutions. The platform’s in-memory database and declarative C++ programming language found adoption in markets ranging from warehouse robotics to autonomous Indy race cars. The platform is now available open source.

Glendale, California, US

Owned solution architecture and product development. Led and grew team from 1 to 25. Managed innovation portfolio of applied ML solutions, developed several into enterprise products, and generated $XXmm ARR. Conducting global business development, quickly acquired industry knowledge and trust of senior technical and executive leadership of Fortune 50.

Pasadena, CA, US

Led DHS-sponsored project delivering hardware/software capabilities to first responders. Built core machine learning algorithms for EMS surge and dispatch application for LAFD. Developed EW classification algorithms for fighter aircraft. Managed university research partnerships.

Pasadena, CA, US

Won $6MM funding from DOD and DHS, authoring technical and budgetary proposals. Invented automated data science platform AUDREY. Based on a hybrid of statistical machine learning and fuzzy rules engine, work included core reasoning algorithms, software architecture. (This effort was honored as one of four projects for lab-wide presentation in 2016.).

Pasadena, CA, US

Working on DARPA cybersecurity task, wrote wargaming simulation engine in Lua and Python and developed cyber-defense strategies based on pattern matching and genetic algorithms. Working for NASA, invented and submitted for patent a non-classical, data-driven reasoning engine called Human-Like Reasoner; this served as the core component of a rocket launch.

Pasadena, CA, US

Recruited by JPL based on AGI research completed with my undergraduate research advisor, Dr. Pei Wang. Provided lectures to JPL’s Reasoning and AI groups, worked to refine theoretical foundations of non-axiomatic logic for applications, and led a team of other interns/fellows in delivering prototype software project for large-scale unstructured information.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

Investigated applications of a distributed cognitive architecture and reasoning framework to natural language processing. Advised by Dr. Pei Wang.Developed a machine learning model to predict price dynamics in deregulated electrical power markets. Advised by Dr. Slobodan Vucetic.

Chicago, IL, US

Analyze technical data and regional/national legislation to ensure air quality compliance and optimize cap and trade position. - Developed compliance strategy for optimizing air market allowance savings at LaPorte Generating Station, a natural gas power plant near Houston, Texas.- Investigated regulatory rulemakings and analyzed their implications to.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Linguistics

Mechanical Engineering