I am a self taught programmer and formally trained machine learning scientist. I graduated with an MSE in robotics from The University of Pennsylvania, and a BSE in Bioengineering and Mathematics. As an undergrad, I walked on to Penn’s heavyweight rowing team, a sport widely known to attract those who masochistically enjoy pain and suffering.

During my graduate school years, I researched deep into machine learning applied to computer vision and natural language processing. In particular, supervised by Kostas Daniilidis, I adopted convolutional neural nets for visual odometry in surgical videos, with application to augmented reality. I then worked with Lyle Ungar on natural language generation with deep reinforcement learning, and with Chris Callison-Burch on machine translation and sentiment analysis. Many of my works have been submitted and accepted for publication. Additionally, I founded the club Bites and Bytes, with 20 hand-picked Ph.D. and master's students spanning computer vision, natural language processing, controls and hardware design. We have no agenda except to have fun!

I am very active in Penn’s nascent Blockchain club. Notably, I helped Kevin Werbach organize a conference on blockchain regulation with security experts and government interests around the world. This was shortly after Jay Clayton declared all tokens "look like securities". I ran the Post-Offering Compliance work group attended by the likes of Marco Santori and Caitlin Long. In February, professor Tzou Han Law of Boston University invited me to give the inaugural lecture for BU's blockchain club, where I spoke about the role of mechanism design in the Bitcoin Network.

Winding back the clock, my first obsession of childhood was drawing.  A few years after I first put crayon to paper, my picture of an orange train was selected as part of Sino-Japan's exhibition program for ... little kids' doodles.  As a high school student, I studied figure drawing and industrial design at The Cleveland Institute of Art.  My recent paintings are found here.

Currently reading: Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger