Experience

Anthropic

• Research Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Member of Technical Staff

  • Oct 2022 - Jun 2023

  San Francisco, California, United States



Omniscience

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-founder & CTO

  • Jul 2021 - Oct 2022



Google

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Software Engineer, Google Research

  • Feb 2019 - Jun 2021

  Mountain View Worked on building conversational recommender systems, in particular better preference elicitation algorithms and modelling uncertainty over user preferences.

• Software Engineer, Search

  • Dec 2015 - Feb 2019

  Mountain View, CA



University of Toronto

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Sep 2014 - Nov 2015

  Toronto, Canada Area Developing new methods for semantic image search.



University of Saskatchewan

• Student Researcher

  • May 2014 - Jul 2014

  Worked on a variety of projects involving the methodology of agent-based modelling: expanded the new ABM language Frabjous, designed a library for statistics collection, and evaluated different languages for use in ABM.



University of Saskatchewan

• Student Researcher

  • May 2013 - Aug 2013

  In order to simplify the creation and analysis of simulation models, I designed and implemented a new domain-specific language for agent-based modeling based on a novel programming paradigm called functional reactive programming. Tasks included reading the academic literature, designing and implementing a full compiler, and technical writing.



University of Saskatchewan

• Teaching Assistant

  • Jan 2013 - Mar 2013

  Led weekly labs for CMPT 340 (Programming Language Paradigms), presenting additional material and answering student questions.



University of Saskatchewan

• Student Researcher

  • May 2011 - Aug 2011

  Implemented an educational iPad app for graphical visualization and analysis of Bayesian networks, with a focus on illustrating the effects of hidden variables.