Hello visitor, so glad that you are visiting my webpage!! Unfortunately the content on this page is outdated, and me in the picture to your left is from a time when I was visiting LA, thought corona was just a beer and had one fabulous fedora that I wore everywhere. A lot has changed since then, I've moved from New York to the Bay Area, started a PhD in CS at Stanford, and have doubled my collection of fabulous fedoras to TWO. I will update this page soon! Please feel free to send me an email at {first}.{last}@stanford.edu in the meantime.

How do children learn new concepts from a few examples? Why does an algorithm that has seen millions of minutes of videos not understand the fundamental properties of objects, but we do so easily? How can infants from arguably 15 months of age understand that others have desires and beliefs that could be different from theirs, while autonomous agents trained for more than all of human existence fail to do so? I am a research scientist at NYU working with Prof. Brenden Lake and Prof. Moira Dillon at the Human & Machine Learning Lab on understanding human cognitive abilities in an effort to advance current AI algorithms.