Curriculum Vitae

Senior AI Research Engineer & Scientist

Professional Experience

2024 — Present

Senior AI Research Engineer

Cognitive Frontiers Labs

Leading research in mechanist interpretability and circuit representation inside deep transformer networks. Designed alignment guardrails for reasoning agents, reducing hallucination rates by 24%. Co-authored patent-pending safety evaluation methods for LLM alignment.

2022 — 2024

Machine Learning Engineer

Synthesis Intelligent Systems

Optimized training pipelines for custom 7B-70B parameter foundational models using PyTorch and Megatron-LM. Scaled training runs across 512+ GPUs. Integrated retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) frameworks inside enterprise reasoning pipelines.

Education

2020 — 2022

M.S. in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence)

Institute of Advanced Technology

Thesis: "Information Bottleneck in Deep Autoencoders and Cognitive Mapping." Advisor: Dr. Raymond Vance. Graduate Teaching Assistant for Machine Learning and Complex Networks.

2016 — 2020

B.S. in Computer Science

Tech State University

Summa Cum Laude. Focused on Algorithms, Computational Math, and Discrete Structures. Received the Outstanding Graduate Award.

Selected Publications

2024

Probing the Latent Geometry of Sparse Autoencoders

Preprint, arXiv:2403.18901

Investigates the structural topology of neural activations using dictionary learning techniques, showing that sparse autoencoder features reside in distinct low-dimensional manifolds.

2023

Self-Reflective Loops in Reasoning Agents

Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

Presents a framework for reinforcement learning from feedback via closed-loop self-critique networks, establishing convergence bounds on text generation policies.

Technical Expertise

Languages
PythonC++RustSQLTypeScriptHTML/CSS
ML Frameworks
PyTorchJAXHugging Face (Transformers, PEFT)DeepspeedWeights & Biases
Infrastructure
DockerKubernetesAWS/GCPGit/CI-CDSLURM