Work
Currently a Staff Software Engineer at Aurora Innovation.
Formerly:
- Senior Software Engineer II at Uber’s Advanced Technologies Group (“ATG”) (Pittsburgh; 2016 – 2021).
- Software Engineer at Google (Pittsburgh; 2012 – 2016).
- Physicist at NIST (Gaithersburg; 2010 – 2012).
Education
- PhD in Physics, Carnegie Mellon University (2010)
- BSc in Physics and Computer Science, Brock University (2005)
Publications
My Google Scholar profile is reasonably up-to-date.
Trivia
- I designed the logo for the CMU Physics Department—at least, I did if they’re still using this one:
- It highlights major research areas of our department at the time.
- Astrophysics: the bottom section represents the spiral arms of galaxies
- High Energy Physics: the top section represents crossed rings at some particle collider or other (the LHC, perhaps?)
- Condensed Matter Physics: My work! The dot on the i is a hexagonal diffraction pattern, like untold myriads I observed during grad school.
- Took me about 2 hours using Inkscape.
- It highlights major research areas of our department at the time.
- I once held the world record for reciting digits of \(e\) from memory: 1590 of ’em, to be precise (I can now do roughly 10).
- I’m also part of the 1000-digit-plus club for pi.