I am a Computer Science graduate student at UC Berkeley, where I am studying Artificial Intelligence. I am working with Jerome Feldman to combine probabilistic models (like Bayes Nets and a first-order model called Probabilistic Relational Models) with process models (like Petri Nets, but with compositional properties). The goal is that the probabilistic models will represent the environment, while process models will represent action and internal state.
I got my undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis; before that, I lived in north-east Tennessee with my family.
In the summer of 2006, I had an internship at Numenta, a company that produces a learning system based on a model of the cortex.
In the spring of 2001, I began dating Kate Harbourn, and in October 2005 we were married. But eventually it became clear that we would be happier apart, so we divorced in August 2007. Kate is presently living in Prague, Czech Republic.
In the fall of 2007, I took up hang gliding, taught by the Berkeley Hang Gliding Club. I currently have a Hang 2 rating but have only flown at Ed Levin park. Hopefully this summer I'll get to fly in the mountains!