I am an Artificial Intelligence researcher interested in Safety, Reinforcement Learning and Survival Analysis. Most recently, I was a member of Meta's Superintelligence Lab, where I architected Meta's first alignment recipe for Safety with Reinforcement Learning. Previously, I was a full-time research scientist at Google Research where I worked on imitation learning and modelling human preferences. I have served as a core contributor to multiple foundation models, including Gemini, Muse Spark and Image and Llama 4.
I received my PhD at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where I worked on approximate inference techniques for semi-parametric graphical models to estimate censored time-to-event outcomes and counterfactuals. I am was part of the Auton Lab and advised by Prof. Artur Dubrawski. My thesis research has seen application in multiple areas of clinical risk prediction, as well as in predicting disruption for safe control of Nuclear Fusion reactors. At Carnegie Mellon, I served on the Dean's PhD Students Advisory Committee and co-chaired the SCS Dec/5.
During my PhD, I worked as a Summer Associate in Prof. Manuela Veloso's AI Research Team within the Corporate and Investment Banking division of J.P. Morgan. I also spent a summer working with Kush R. Varshney and others at IBM Research's Thomas J. Watson Research Centre as a Science for Social Good Fellow.
| 2023 | AAAI Fall Symposium - Survival Prediction - Algorithms, Challenges and Applications |
| 2025 | Machine Learning for Health Symposium (ML4H) |
| 2024 | Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference (MLHC) |
| 2020 | NeurIPS Machine Learning for Health Workshop (ML4H) |
| 2020 | Neural Information Processing Systems (NeuRIPS) |
| 2020 | ACL Student Research Workshop (ACL-SRW) |
| 2020 | Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference (MLHC) |
| 2020 | ICLR ML in Real-Life Workshop (ML-IRL) |
| 2020 | ACM Conference on Health, Inference and Learning (CHIL) |
| 2019 | NeurIPS Machine Learning for Health Workshop (ML4H) |
I'm a dormant member of the W3VC, the Carnegie Tech Radio Club; In my past life, I used to make (hack?) stuff.
I enjoy Equitation, playing the Guitar, and Trivia and Quiz contests.
Here's a [list] of all the places I lived in before coming to Pittsburgh.