About

Hi! My name is Michael, and I like pushing the frontier of AI research and making it practical. I’m currently head of foundation models AI at Collaborative Robotics (Cobot).

Previously, I was chief ML engineer at Groundlight AI. Before that, I researched and built deep learning into a bunch of different applications at Amazon – things like scalable nearest neighbor search over vector embeddings and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) for data-efficient fulfillment center robotics. I also started a project with Fred Hutch Cancer Center to develop ML methods for optimizing personalized cancer vaccines.

In general, I’m fascinated by learning – how people learn, how computers learn, how groups learn.