I live in Cambridge, MA, where I split my time between eating burritos and doing research.  I studied physics, mathematics, and economics at Columbia as a Rabi Scholar.

Currently, I’m at the New England Complex Systems Institute, an independent think tank in Cambridge, MA. I apply tools from statistical physics, machine learning, econometrics, computational finance, natural language processing, visualization, network science, and statistics to massive amounts of data in order to build quantitative models. We study the emergent behavior of complex systems, like stock market crashes, ethnic violence, and political unrest.

My work has taken me from black hole physics to quantitative finance and complex systems science, and has been covered by Wired, BoingBoing, PhysOrg, ScienceNews, Technology Review, ZeroHedge, Naked Capitalism, and others.

To learn more, go to my projects page.