About me

Hello, World.

I am an incoming Ph.D. student at the University of British Columbia studying under Dr. Jeff Clune!! I study meta-learning and reinforcement learning. And math.

During my MS I have also been researching in the Game Innovation Lab at New York Univeristy Tandon School of Engineering under Dr. Julian Togelius.

My M.S. thesis is about Open-Ended evolution via Co-evolution of agents and environments in GVG-AI The created system is called PINSKY – POET Inspired Neuroevolutionary System for KreativiY in Games.

Previously, I started my PhD at the New Jersey Institute of Technology under Dr. Amy Hoover, was a Master’s Student at Fordham University studying Machine Learning and a machine learning engineer intern at Instrumental Inc.

• I worked Research Intern for Dr. Joshua Scrier on the DARPA-SD2E project.
  • You can find this work under my Publication’s tab.
• I TA’d a graduate course on Natural Language Processing during the Fall 2019 Semester.

Prior to my MS, I:

• Worked at Instrumental
  • Machine Learning Engineer Intern – Summer 2018
• Worked at nTopology
  • Software Engineer Cooperative – October 2017 - March 2018
• Worked at Clayton High School
  • Substitute Teacher – August 2016 - June 2017
• Studied Mathematics and Computer Science at Fordham University for my undergraduate degree – 2012 - 2016