About Me
I am an AI Research Scientist at DRW, where I am building and scaling an internal AI research organization. My work focuses on developing deep learning models across multiple modalities, including natural language, computer vision, time series, and tabular data, with applications to real-world decision-making systems.
Previously, I worked at Amazon, where I contributed to the development of large language models powering Rufus, Amazon’s shopping assistant launched in 2023 and now used by millions of customers.
Before entering industry, I was a research scientist in academia, working at the intersection of physics-based numerical modeling and data-driven deep learning methods. My research focused on simulating complex systems such as weather dynamics governed by fluid mechanics and cloud microphysics driven by particle interactions.
I received my Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2017) and a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Recent Essays
Polymath
The Age of Exploration expanded the map of the world. The Age of Creation expands the map of the possible. AI collapses the cost of turning intent into reality —...
The Age of Creation
The Age of Exploration expanded the map of the world. It found new lands, new routes, new resources. That was enormous—but it was still constrained by physics: ships, oceans, months...
AI Feudalism
OpenClaw started as a practical experiment: an open-source autonomous assistant that could connect to messaging platforms, execute tasks, and maintain persistent memory. It was meant to be a tool —...
Social Contract
The idea of a social contract is often introduced as a philosophical abstraction: an imagined agreement through which individuals consent to authority in exchange for security and order. Yet historically,...