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Projects

Photography
Wildlife, landscape, nature, and architecture photography
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Terra
Real-time geological erosion simulation using WebGPU compute shaders and Rust/WASM
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Superparticle Sim
Emergent N-body physics from three simple pairwise forces — rigid bodies, orbits, and tidal effects arise naturally on WebGPU
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My Little Council
Inspired by Karpathy's LLM Council — query multiple LLMs in parallel, have them peer-review each other, and synthesize a final answer
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Experience

2025 — present
Chief Science Officer
Ironsite
Leading the research organization building spatial AI foundation models for the physical economy.
2024 — 2025
Member of Technical Staff
Etched
Key lead on the inference engine powering Sohu, the world's first transformer ASIC.
2024
Senior Software Engineer
Google DeepMind
Led a Gemini co-design research project with Jeff Dean.
2023 — 2024
Senior Software Engineer
Google Research
Led ML quantization research. Co-authored MobileNetV4 (760+ citations) and PikeLPN (CVPR 2024).
2022 — 2023
Senior Software Engineer
YouTube
ML-hardware co-design for YouTube's Video Compute Unit.
2020 — 2022
Software Engineer
Google Devices & Services
Quantization-aware training for ML on Pixel devices. Key contributor to open source QKeras.

Selected Publications

MobileNetV4: Universal models for the mobile ecosystem ECCV 2025 · 849 citations
PikeLPN: Mitigating Overlooked Inefficiencies of Low-Precision Neural Networks CVPR 2024
Custom Gradient Estimators are Straight-Through Estimators in Disguise arXiv 2024
Enabling Binary Neural Network Training on the Edge 2022 · 33 citations
Control of Tendon-Driven Soft Foam Robot Hands Humanoids 2018 · 50 citations
13 papers · 3 patents · 1,000+ citations

Education

2016 — 2020
B.S. Computer Science, Minor in Applied Mathematics
Boise State University
4.0 GPA · Summa Cum Laude · Honors College
  • Goldwater Scholar — oldest and most prestigious STEM scholarship in the USA
  • Top Ten Scholar — out of 2,700+ graduates
  • KPCB Engineering Fellow — 1 of 50 from ~3,000 applicants
  • CMU RISS Scholar — 1 of 11 from 1,500+ applicants
  • AI Club Founder & President — grew to 180+ members
  • IEEE Student Branch Chair — grew largest engineering org 75%