About

I’m a research scientist and full-stack ML engineer based in Los Angeles. My work connects foundational models and neural simulation with systems that operate at real-world scale.

Beyond machine learning, I’m deeply curious about robotics, quantitative systems, and the arts.

Experience

Riot Games

Sep 2026 — Present

Senior Research Scientist

Researching world models for interactive environments, scalable reinforcement learning, long-horizon behavior, and transfer to real environments.

Riot Games

Nov 2025 — Sep 2026

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Engineered cross-game ML infrastructure and scalable evaluation services for asynchronous, per-checkpoint validation and artifact tracking.

Meta

Nov 2024 — Sep 2025

Software Engineer

Built large-scale ML infrastructure for Ads personalization, with distributed training and serving pipelines supporting billions of impressions and thousands of concurrent experiments.

Google

Mar 2022 — Oct 2024

Software Engineer

Built scalable ML pipelines for anomaly detection in YouTube revenue systems, focusing on reproducibility, monitoring, and experiment evaluation.

Uber

Nov 2021 — Mar 2022

Software Engineer

Productionized ML models for routing and matching in a real-time marketplace serving millions of daily trips.

PepsiCo

Aug 2019 — Dec 2019

Data Scientist

Led an ML initiative to optimize advertising spend across Amazon and Instacart using campaign uplift predictions.

Teaching

Columbia University

Feb 2019 — Dec 2021

Led rigorous and intensive data science programs for 200+ students across multiple cohorts.

University of Toronto

2018

Teaching Assistant, Full Stack Web Development Bootcamp

Supported a single cohort through a full-stack web development bootcamp covering React, Node.js, and MongoDB.

Education

University of Alberta

Undergraduate Studies, Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts

Focus on performer-created theatre. A combination of theory and practice while engaging in the many aspects of the theatrical process—participated in community-based projects and engaged in critical research.

Volunteering

Columbia Engineering

2021 — 2022

Mentor, Justice Through Code

Justice Through Code works to solve the crisis of mass incarceration by offering life-changing access to career-track opportunities in technology. Guided a mentee through technical challenges in Python, provided career advice, and supported the completion of their final project.

Black Girls CODE

2019 — 2020

Lead Instructor

Led tech-focused workshops in New York, empowering girls of color ages 6 to 17 to become innovators in STEM fields, leaders in their communities, and builders of their own future through exposure to computer science and technology.

All Star Code

2019

Lead Instructor

Taught HTML5 and JavaScript to a class of 15 alongside two teaching assistants, helping develop a new generation of young men of color with an entrepreneurial mindset and the tools to succeed in a technological world.