I am currently the Applied AI Product Lead for the Health and Life Sciences team at Microsoft.

Previously, I was an Applied Scientist at Microsoft Research Special Projects working on privacy and security research. The broad motivations of my research are represented in paper I wrote in collaboration with OpenAI titled “Contextual Confidence and Generative AI”.

If my work on privacy or security seems interesting to you, here is my Microsoft Research profile, LinkedIn, and Twitter where I post more about work.

Other:

• Research affiliate at the Harvard GETTING-Plurality Network
• Research affilidate at Gov4Git Foundation
• Advisor at Plurality Institute
• Emergent Ventures award winner.

Previously, I co-founded the PTC lab at Microsoft Research.

In college I did clinical machine learning research under Marzyeh Ghassemi and Leo Anthony Celi at MIT CSAIL, Vector Institute, and MIT Institute for Medical Engineering Sciences.

I was the Founder of Flatten, a COVID-19 symptom surveillance non-profit that operated in Canada and Somalia, advised by Nick Frosst and Geoffrey Hinton.

I graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in Engineering Science and major in machine learning (thesis advisor Stark Draper).

I am currently based in San Fransisco.

I love triathlon and have so far qualified for 3 age group world championships. If you ever want to ride, bike, or swim, reach out! I also play basketball.