FAIR - Staff Research Engineer June 2023 - Present

Led Chameleon (multi-modal foundation model) inference optimization, demo infrastructure, and open-source release with HuggingFace.

Developed ALMA, a low-annotation LLM alignment method enhancing controllability.

Primary maintainer of FAIR's new LLM training codebase to support future model development. Hopefully to be open sourced soon.

Director of Engineering August 2020 - July 2021

Led teams developing autonomous vehicle motion planning, SLAM, and orchestration.

Principal Engineer February 2019 - August 2020

Designed scalable motion planning and perception systems for autonomous forklifts.

Robot Intelligence Infrastructure

Founding engineer. Built unified robotic data transfer and orchestration system.

Motion Planning

Led motion planning team, designing simulation tools and semantic map representations. Developed algorithms for route planning and vehicle dynamics.

Google Brain October 2015 - November 2016

Researched reinforcement learning and deep learning methods for large-scale machine learning applications.

Google[X] April 2015 - October 2015

Developed control software for multi-agent robotic systems and designed safety mechanisms for experimental hardware.

Language Understanding February 2014 - April 2015

Built NLP models for sentiment analysis, QA, and personalized search. Designed systems to extract testimonials and opinions from Play Store comments.

Search Ranking Engine Analytics February 2011 - February 2014

Built large-scale data analysis pipelines and A/B testing infrastructure for Google's search ranking. Developed automated deployment, monitoring, and traffic prediction systems.