CV
Experience
Independent Technology Consultant
ML/AI Architect | Sept 2024 – Current
- Led technical consulting engagement for enterprise solutions clients, architecting and prototyping solutions for natural language processing and information retrieval systems
- Provided comprehensive technical advisory services spanning MLOps infrastructure design, development roadmap planning, and best practices for scaling ML operations
Seek AI
Head of AI | Apr 2022 – Aug 2024
- Architected and patented a state-of-the-art ML system for semantic parsing and information retrieval, achieving 91.2% execution accuracy (current SOTA) on the Spider Text-to-SQL Challenge while building and mentoring a high-performing team of 8 ML researchers & engineers
- Developed comprehensive MLOps infrastructure including automated data pipelines and monitoring systems, while driving strategic technical decisions across engineering, product, and design teams
- Led technical strategy, research partnerships, and presentations that secured $10M in seed funding while establishing engineering best practices and fostering a culture of innovation
Montclair NLP Lab
Graduate Assistant | Sep 2021 – May 2023
- Conducted original research in lexical semantic shift detection in Modern Hebrew
- Assisted professors teaching undergraduate courses in cognitive science and phonology
Aphelion Orbitals
Co-founder | Oct 2016 – Nov 2018
- Devised successful budget for $500k seed funding round
- Oversaw communications and reports to investors
- Developed and maintained in-house and cloud computing operations
Patents & Publications
Style Outweighs Substance: Failure Modes of LLM Judges in Alignment Benchmarking
Conference Paper | Coauthor, Accepted at ICLR 2025 | Jan 2025
MisMo: More is More in Alignment
Workshop Paper | Coauthor, Accepted at SFLLM 2024 @ NeurIPS | Dec 2024
NLP Methods and Systems for Querying Datasets
Method Patent | Patent Nos. 19,099,502 & 12,099,503 | Sep 2024
Education
Johns Hopkins University
MS Systems Engineering (part-time) | I/P
- Relevant Coursework: Introduction to Systems Engineering, Management of Systems Projects
Montclair State University
MS Computational Linguistics | May 2023
- Capstone Project: Lexical Bias in Generating SQL Descriptions with Few-shot Learning
- Relevant Coursework: Computational Linguistics, Data Mining, Quantitative Linguistics, Special Topics in NLP, Machine Learning
St John's College (MD)
BA History of Mathematics & Science, Philosophy | May 2021
- Senior Essay: Evolution and Calculus: An Exploration of the Genesis of Complex Analysis in Cauchy's 1825 Memorandum
- Minors in classics, & comparative literature
- Relevant Coursework: Preceptorials in Chaos Theory and Computation; tutorials in Non-Euclidean Geometry and Number Theory
Invited Talks
Generative AI: A Phenomenal Science
Arthur AI Fest 2024 | Invited Talk | Sep 2024
Building Safe AI: What We Can Learn from Golems and Copper Men
Datafest Tbilisi 2024 | Workshop | Sep 2024
Arthur AI Ground Truth: AI Crashes the Science Party
Arthur AI | Panel | Feb 2024
ChatGPT & the Future of AI
Montclair State University | Panel | Feb 2023