Engineer | Scientist | Advisor | Investor | Entrepreneur
I advance the capabilities of large models, advise on the strengths and limitations of frontier AI, and accelerate responsible and competitive deployment.
My work focuses on advancing the state of the art in AI and using it to build new products. I care deeply about ensuring that this technology is carefully and safely deployed with maximal benefit to human flourishing and minimal downside for society.
Founding member of the Gemini core team and on the critical path for reasoning capabilities in Gemini 1, Gemini 2, and Gemini 3.
Led Minerva, achieving a breakthrough 50% accuracy on the MATH benchmark, and worked on the SOTA PaLM and PaLM 2 models. Previously, worked with Ilya Sutskever to lead the Reasoning, Algorithms, and Multimodal teams at OpenAI, where we released Codex, which launched the modern wave of AI code generation.
Before that, founded Kemvi (acquired by HubSpot) and led the Machine Learning Labs team at HubSpot, developing new products using large neural networks with text, images, and audio.
Studied physics, mathematics, and economics at Columbia University as a Rabi Scholar and worked on black hole research at the Institute for Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics.
My work has been covered by TechCrunch, Fortune, Wired, Technology Review, and others, with publications and patents spanning machine learning, natural language processing, program synthesis, medical imaging, human-computer interaction, black hole physics, and quantitative finance.