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In my day job, I’m an AI engineer on Stanford University’s AI Catalyst team, focusing on Enterprise AI. Outside of Stanford, I’m researching how to build a mind from the ground up, using verifiable measures.
LinkedIn -✦- GitHub -✦- X -✦- MindGuild -✦- Instagram -✦- Substack
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<aside> <img src="/icons/briefcase_blue.svg" alt="/icons/briefcase_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Workplaces Stanford University, Bongard.ai, Mindora.ai, National Research Council of Canada, Hylo, Cogniva, Castlight Health
Education: B.Sc. Computer Science with a focus in Computational Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, 2007
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<aside> <img src="/icons/computer_blue.svg" alt="/icons/computer_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Published Work From S3Q Theory to Implementation: Towards an Architecture for Machine Qualia, IEEE SMC, 2026 ** The AWS Bedrock Tutorial I Wish I Had: Everything You Need to Know to Prepare Your Machine for AWS Infrastructure**, Towards Data Science, Oct 2024
Batched K-Means with Python Numba and CUDA C, Towards Data Science, Nov 27, 2023
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<aside> <img src="/icons/token_blue.svg" alt="/icons/token_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Notable Achievements Parallelized a custom K-means variant for GPU, cutting processing from 1 day to 1 minute (1500x+ speedup) using Python, NumPy, Numba, and CUDA/C for a proprietary few-shot ML model.
I came up with six novel top-performing solutions within my first 100 questions on Leetcode, including a new top 10% runtime and memory solution for a Leetcode Hard.
2024 AI Conference Hack Day HackrChallenge Winner [LinkedIn Announcement]
Founded and acted as the first Chair for Dalhousie University’s Women in Technology Society (WiTS) in 2007, which still exists today to support female-identifying students pursing technical degrees.
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<aside> <img src="/icons/document_blue.svg" alt="/icons/document_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Resume AI Engineering Resume
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<aside> <img src="/icons/preview_blue.svg" alt="/icons/preview_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Talks IEEE SMC 2026 - Towards an Architecture for Machine Qualia, *on behalf of Mind Guild.* AI Coding Assistants - for - UIT AI Action Day @ Stanford University
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<aside> <img src="/icons/robot_blue.svg" alt="/icons/robot_blue.svg" width="40px" /> AI Safety Work
AI Safety 1-pager (includes bio) | AI Safety Project | MIRI Visiting Fellow Profile
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<aside> <img src="/icons/new-badge_blue.svg" alt="/icons/new-badge_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Recent Updates
Oct 8, 2026: presented with Katrina Schleisman at IEEE SMC 2026 in Bellevue, Washington. Check out the paper, demo or the talk.
July 31, 2026: Accepted into IEEE SMC 2026.
Apr 13, 2026: Joined Stanford’s AI Catalyst Team as an AI Engineer
Mar 8, 2026: Joined the March-April cohort of BlueDot Impact’s Technical AI Safety Project
Feb 22, 2026: Completed BlueDot Impact’s Technical AI Safety Course
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<aside> <img src="/icons/book_blue.svg" alt="/icons/book_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Articles
Mini Course on Whole Brain Emulation (WBE)
Speeding up Parallelized Algorithms - 1 Pager
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<aside> <img src="/icons/compose_blue.svg" alt="/icons/compose_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Essays
Building Safe & Verifiable Neuromorphic Agent
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<aside> <img src="/icons/archery_blue.svg" alt="/icons/archery_blue.svg" width="40px" /> (Claude) Skills /de-ai | take AI writing out of your text /bedtime story | have AI write you a 10- to 20-minute bedtime story /nerdsnipe | make any text intellectually irresistible /lowkey-viz | visualize your text in the format of a data dashboard /ascii-drawings | capture complex conceptual relationships in ascii diagrams
https://github.com/Minda/skills
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Project Writeups
Mindora | An AI-Powered ADHD Diagnosis Platform
Hylo | UX for a Collaborative Community Platform
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<aside> <img src="/icons/microscope_blue.svg" alt="/icons/microscope_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Experiments A couple of fun UX experiments that bring together an understanding of internal LLM / Transformer dynamics with creative exploration of novel UX paradigms.
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<aside> <img src="/icons/verified_blue.svg" alt="/icons/verified_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Skills Python, C React, Next.js, Javascript PyTorch, NumPy, RAG, SageMaker, LangChain, LangSmith Numba, CUDA C, Custom GPU kernels PyTorch Geometric, NetworkX, LangGraph Figma, UI / UX, Product Management
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<aside> <img src="/icons/brain_blue.svg" alt="/icons/brain_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Interests
AI, Cognitive Neuroscience, UI Design, Machine Learning, Longevity, Startups, Research, Whole Brain Emulation, Painting, Art
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<aside> <img src="/icons/geography_blue.svg" alt="/icons/geography_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Born in: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Places Lived: Halifax (Nova Scotia), Ottawa (Ontario), San Francisco Bay Area (California), Nevada City & Grass Valley (California), Santa Cruz (California), Haiku (Maui, Hawaii), Victoria (British Columbia)
Citizenship: Canada-US dual citizen Location: Menlo Park, California
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