About Me
I’m currently a computer science professor at Vanderbilt University, with a passion for Deep Learning and its many applications.
I believe in writing as an aid to thinking, and writing as you speak. I believe in slowing down, and that a thing worth doing, is worth doing badly.
I believe in the pervasiveness of research debt, and in the invaluable role of research distillers.
Please check out a working draft of an interactive Machine Learning with Python+Numpy textbook I am working on at my posts page.
Technical Interests
Deep Learning, Information Theory, Theoretical Machine Learning, High Dimensional Bayesian Inference, Optimization, Explainable/Interpretable AI
Experience
Assistant Professor of the Practice of Computer Science || Vanderbilt University
January 2021 – Present
Postdoctoral Fellow || Vanderbilt University
Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics
January 2018 – December 2019
Doctoral Researcher || University of California, San Diego
August 2011 – June 2017
Education
University of California, San Diego || San Diego, CA
PhD in Bioengineering || Aug. 2011 - June 2017
Emphasis on high-dimensional Bayesian inference, optimal sequential communication and information theory
University of Florida || Gainesville, FL
BS || Aug. 2006 - Dec. 2010