Background

Google DeepMind

2023 – Present

Founding member of the Gemini core team and on the critical path for STEM reasoning capabilities, long-horizon agentic tasks, and massive pretraining datasets in Gemini 1, Gemini 2, and Gemini 3.

Google X

2021 – 2023

Conceived of and led the Minerva project, the first major demonstration of olympiad level mathematical reasoning ability. Drove code and scientific reasoning abilities in PaLM and PaLM 2.

OpenAI

2019 – 2021

Led the Reasoning, Algorithms Core, and Multimodal teams. Co-developed Codex. Managed 20+ researchers responsible for shipping Image GPT, Jukebox, GPT-f, DALL-E, and CLIP, and contributing to GPT-3.

HubSpot

2017 – 2019

Joined via acquisition of Kemvi to lead the Labs team. Launched new applications of deep learning in sales and marketing, including Smart Compose, transcription, automated image captioning, search typo correction, and signup fraud prevention.

Kemvi

2013 – 2017

Founded and sold a deep learning startup; acquired by HubSpot. Raised angel and venture rounds, led product strategy and research+engineering team focused on generating customized sales and marketing content with deep learning.

Columbia University

Studied physics with research in theoretical cosmology (exotic black holes), experimental astrophysics (cosmic microwave background), and experimental particle physics (electron bubbles in liquid helium).