About

I’m a data scientist and machine learning engineer, dad, coffee enthusiast, budding hiker, and extremely poor skiier living in Bellingham, Washington, USA.

I have a background in engineering (Penn Bioengineering BSE ‘07/MSE ‘17) and psychology, with academic research experience in human memory and social media, personality, and mental health. I continued working on social media and mental health in industry and government research at Qntfy, now part of SonderMind, where I worked on ML solutions for matching prospective clients to mental health providers, targeting conversion and clinical outcomes.

From Sondermind I was recruited to Aura to work on distilling a huge volume of security suite data (VPN transactions) into informative signals of mental wellbeing and behavioral risk assessment for youth users. I have made meaningful progress towards the goal of delivering insights on the broad question, Is my child okay? by engineering and deploying data products related to sleep and predicting “risk” related to network traffic temporal patterns and app categories.

My publication list can be found here.

Outside of work, I like to experiment with espresso (longer post coming soon, videos available on my YouTube page), and I’ve taken up the de rigeur PNW outdoorsy activities of hiking (great!) and skiing (fun but hard! I’m awful!). Currently (Aug 2022) working my way through the BCE Trail Challenge 2022, and psyching myself up to figure out parallel turns on skis this winter.

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