Teaching
6.S191: Intro to Deep Learning
Founded and taught MIT’s first ever course on Deep Learning and TensorFlow in partnership with Google Brain, NVIDIA, Amazon Echo, and IBM Watson. Website here. Lecture videos here.
Publications
Fundamentals of Deep Learning (O’Reilly Book)
With the reinvigoration of neural networks in the 2000s, deep learning has become an extremely active area of research that is paving the way for modern machine learning. This book uses exposition and examples to help you understand major concepts in this complicated field.
Large companies such as Google, Microsoft, and Facebook have taken notice, and are actively growing in-house deep learning teams. For the rest of us however, deep learning is still a pretty complex and difficult subject to grasp. If you have a basic understanding of what machine learning is, have familiarity with the Python programming language, and have some mathematical background with calculus, this book will help you get started.
Neural Generation of Regular Expressions from Natural Language with Minimal Domain Knowledge
First Author, EMNLP 2016. Designed and trained novel Deep RNN for generating Regular Expressions given natural language descriptions of the user’s intent. Paper here. Code+Data here.
Industry Experience
Deep Learning Consultant. Built deep learning systems for dynamic cyber threat and insurance modeling. Also worked on cybersecurity machine learning theory as it relates to the bounds on cyberinsurance market profitability.
Computer Vision Engineer. Developed automatic exercise classification from video with deep CNN’s. Developed facial recognition login, barbell path and form tracking systems.
Software Engineer. Worked on Recommendations team building machine learning models with big data pipelines. Ran user-facing experiments on Re-Ranking Homefeed using Facebook data signals. Built internal debug tool for our machine learning ranking models.
Software Engineer. Worked on iOS team. Leveraged runtime meta programming to implement property-based wrapper for NSUserDefaults. Worked on experimental Notifications Center Widget.
My Projects
Chrome Extension that performs image captioning using deep neural networks to automatically provide alt-text for vision-impaired users.
Web app and deep learning system that listens to company meetings to monitor employee speaking habits and tendencies. Speaker + interruption recognition in a novel setting.
iOS photo sharing application. +200,000 users. +3 million photos sent. Unfortunately shut down by Snapchat legal request.
Node + Socket web app that gives professors real-time feedback during lecture. Also built an Internet of Things Arduino controlled LED Orb that changed color in real time to match the on-screen graph. Made for MIT’s 6.170 final project. Code here.
iOS 2D action runner game. +150,000 downloads.
Portfolio of other design and software projects.