I'm currently a Principal Scientist at Evolutionary Scale (now part of Biohub), where I develop representation learning models for biological data.

Before switching to applying neural networks in the hard sciences, I worked on natural language processing at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. I cocreated AllenNLP, a library for Natural Language Processing research, focused on neural networks. I also worked on Elmo (Embeddings from Language Models) a popular representation learning method for embedding words in context. It began a trend of deep contextualised word representation learning in NLP, such as BERT/GPT-3.

When i'm not optimizing large neural networks, I love cooking, playing Go, making wooden tables and riding steel-framed bicycles.

Outside of Evolutionary Scale, I occasionally advise startups on machine learning and technical strategy. Interested in working with me? Learn about my advisory work.