I believe that artificial intelligence presents an incredible opportunity to improve our lives and better society.
I was fortunate to find machine learning early and started a PhD in Applied ML before building eleven (and counting) ML/AI products. Previously led the product and business vision and execution for technical, research, and go-to-market teams as a company founder, and product and go-to-market leader. A lot of this was in healthcare (Amazon Pharmacy, Hew.ai, consulted for the Obama Administration).
Currently advising companies from the Fortune 50 to startups on AI product and strategy.
Projects
- HeroGram - We have amazing people in our lives, sending a HeroGram is a fun way to tell those people they’re amazing, creating them as a superhero. I constructed a multimodal system that coordinates the development of a unique hero by coordinating four LLM’s, utilizing dynamic prompting and custom models. The beta is live here.
- Memory is Also What You Need - Using referencial inputs to improve decision making.
- Discussion Groups - I’ve hosted discussion groups on deep topics for the last five years. I’m experimenting with how AI can enhance these experiences.
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Background
Ex-Amazon, Ex-Microsoft, three startups, consulted for the Obama Administration and the Government of Tanzania. Klopman Scholar at Duke (MBA), Masters in Research at Cambridge, PhD candidate.
Research
I’ve primarily focused on the use of chatbots and ML personalization to improve and understand behavioral health.
- Papers
- Improving Weight Loss Adherence: A Machine Learning Approach to Personalized Chatbot Interventions
- Using Qualitative Chatbot Messaging Content to Understand Anxiety and Hope Causation During Covid-19
- Using Chatbots to Measure Wellbeing During Covid-19
- SMS Text Agents with Healthy Food Delivery to Improve Healthy Eating
- Other -
- Reviewed articles for NEJM Catalyst and advised on ML and AI applications
Other
Why AI? - Here’s a letter I shared with an amazing friend who asked for career advice. It’s a unique moment to build the future of AI and we need fantastic people from all backgrounds. This letter shares my thinking as to why. link
Reading Recommendation - The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis had a huge effect on me. It’s the best primer I’ve found on where the human brain has limitations and where AI can add real value. link
Current Reading List - The Human Use Of Human Beings by Norbert Wiener and The Datapreneurs: The Promise of AI and the Creators Building Our Future by Bob Muglia.
Volunteering - I’ve been fortunate to have wonderful mentors. As a first-gen-college multi-racial kid, I’m thankful for having a village. I mentor youth from low income backgrounds and am on the lookout for programs that incorporate AI career training. I was previously a Peace Corps Volunteer doing microfinance in Senegal and a spent a year in Tanzania as a volunteer teacher.