Curriculum vitae
Publications are listed separately.
Experience
- 2025–present
Two Sigma
Senior Vice President, Quantitative Engineer
AI Innovation Team.
- 2023–2025
Allen Research
Founder
Independent research in generative AI and knowledge representation.
- 2021–2023
Acrisure Capital
Chief Scientist
A small team of engineers and scientists in Austin, building a quantitative investment firm from the ground up.
- 2019–2021
Acrisure Technology Group
Chief Technology Officer
The technology arm of Acrisure: engineering, product, and AI research teams.
- 2019–2020
Tulco Labs
Chief Technology Officer
The technology arm of Tulco Holdings, applying AI to accelerate the growth of a portfolio of companies that included FIGS, Edgeworth, Road Runner, and the Tulco-initiated startups Altway Insurance and BlueNote AI. Acrisure acquired Altway, BlueNote, and other Tulco assets in August 2019.
- 2019–2020
Altway Insurance
Chief Technology Officer
Employee #1 and CTO of a joint venture of Tulco Holdings and Acrisure, founded to apply artificial intelligence to insurance distribution. Active users grew 10% week over week for 35 weeks before Acrisure acquired the company outright.
- 2019–2020
BlueNote AI
Chief Technology Officer
Employee #1 and CTO of a startup founded by Tulco Holdings. Where Altway applied AI to insurance distribution, BlueNote applied predictive modeling to the carrier side. Acquired by Acrisure along with Altway and parts of Tulco Labs.
- 2017–2019
Two Sigma
Senior Vice President, Artificial Intelligence Researcher
Senior researcher on the newly formed AI Core Team, working on deep reinforcement learning and its application to finance.
- 2015–2017
Vice President, Head of Houston Data Engineering
Led an organization of roughly 40 engineers in five teams, working on predictive modeling, distributed computing, data ingestion, and anomaly detection.
- 2014–2015
Engineering Manager, Analytics and Alpha Capture
Built and managed a new team in the Houston office that collected and maintained alpha capture data and applied machine learning and predictive modeling to it.
- 2013–2014
RetailMeNot
Lead Data Scientist
Managed the data science team and set its direction, applying machine learning, natural language processing, and statistical analysis to large datasets.
- 2011–2013
Bazaarvoice
Engineering Manager, Data Science
Founded and led the company’s first data science team, which used machine learning and natural language processing to analyze unstructured data and delivered the results in high-volume, low-latency web services for online advertising.
- 2003–2011
Sun Microsystems
Principal Engineer
Directed Project Fortress, an open source project of Sun Labs to develop a next-generation language for high-performance computing, as part of the DARPA HPCS program.
- 2000–2001
Cycorp
Software Engineer
Built a word-sense disambiguation engine based on concept proximity in the Cyc knowledge graph, and a JVM-based blackboard interface for remote access to the Cyc system.
- 1995–1996
Cornell University
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Programmer and research assistant in Claire Cardie’s Natural Language Processing Research Group. Built tools that identify citations in unstructured text and link them to the references.
Teaching
- 2014–2016
Rice University
Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
Taught functional programming and parallel and distributed computing. The functional programming curriculum drew on How to Design Programs, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, and Martin Odersky’s Coursera course Functional Programming Principles in Scala.
- 2008–2009
The University of Texas at Austin
Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
Taught honors and graduate courses on operational semantics and type systems, roughly following Benjamin Pierce’s Types and Programming Languages. Member of the SIGPLAN-sponsored Curriculum Workshop on Programming Language Education.
Education
- 1997–2003
Rice University
PhD, Computer Science
Advisor: Robert Cartwright. Thesis: A First-Class Approach to Genericity. The paper of the same name won Best Student Paper at OOPSLA 2003.
- 2009–2011
The University of Texas at Austin
Master of Business Administration
Executive MBA program, Red McCombs School of Business.
- 1993–1996
Cornell University
Bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics and in Computer Science
Cornell College Scholar. Concentration in cognitive studies.
Patents
- 2016
- 2014
- 2012
- 2009
Awards
- 2010
First Place, New Venture Creation Business Plan Competition
- 2003
Best Student Paper