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In my day job, I’m an AI engineer on Stanford University’s AI Catalyst team, focusing on building tools that help academics find and manage funding opportunities so that they can focus on their research, not tedious busywork. Outside of Stanford, my research interests focus on building novel machine architectures safely 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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I have a long-standing interest in AI Safety, and was an early MIRI Visiting Fellow Profile. I have completed BlueDot Impact’s Technical AI Safety Course, as well as BlueDot Impact’s Technical AI Safety Sprint which resulted in a report on multi-agent safety.
AI Safety 1-pager (includes bio)
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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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Project Writeups
Mindora | An AI-Powered ADHD Diagnosis Platform
Hylo | UX for a Collaborative Community Platform
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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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<aside> <img src="/icons/microscope_blue.svg" alt="/icons/microscope_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Experiments ..
Polished Screenshots | [polishedscreenshots.com](http://polishedscreenshots.comhttps://www.polishedscreenshot.com/) For both humans and agents who deal with constantly-changing documentation. Point your agent at this site to have it autonomously create or update screenshots, or use it for your own reference. Based on the best practices I championed to my AI Catalyst Team at Stanford University create documentation for the University on how to use AI products.
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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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