This site is the place to find me if you're looking, and occasionally a place for me to sound off on work, my life and travels, and my obsession with weird old movies.
I work at Tableau Software's Vancouver office, where I am bringing Machine Learning to Tableau's data visualization tools.
Before that, I was lucky enough to work at Pocket Pixels on the popular iOS photography apps Color Splash and Juxtaposer. I also worked on the Machine Learning parts of news recommender app Zite, which was acquired by Flipboard in 2014.
My PhD thesis, code, and other publications. The subject of my PhD work is Bayesian optimization, with an emphasis on practical AI applications (computer vision, machine-aided animation tools, robotics, etc). I had the incredible fortune of having Nando de Freitas (now at Google DeepMind) as my thesis supervisor.
I <3 movies. Partly because people sometimes ask, but mostly because I'm a huge dork who wants the world to love what I love as much as I do, I maintain a list of my favourite movies that you maybe not have seen.
My wife and I love to travel, mostly in Asia. In January 2014 we took a month-long trip to Vietnam. She was six months pregnant at the time. It was fine. Since then, our trips have been a bit more kid-friendly, just the occasional jaunt across the Pacific to visit relatives in Australia, you know?
My old blog. Remember when blogs were a thing and everybody had one and they were all a bit samey but also kind of personal and intimate? I miss that.