About me

I'm an AI engineer and researcher who's passionate about building intelligent,automated applications using agents and the tools around them. My interests vary over time but largely combine insights from data modelling, knowledge graphs, machine learning, data infrastructure and agentic systems.

I'm currently a founding AI engineer and researcher at Hyperdimensional Computing Labs, where I combine graph and vector representations through hyperdimensional computing (HDC), so that agents can retrieve better context than either representation provides on its own. Much of my work involves designing experiments and benchmarks that lay out the tradeoffs between different tools and techniques. I'm having a lot of fun with it: diving deep into empirical research, digging through the HDC literature and running experiments to see what holds up in practice has been one of the most rewarding learning experiences I've had.

I'm based in Toronto 🇨🇦, and have previously lived in Vancouver 🇨🇦, London 🇬🇧 and Ann Arbor, Michigan 🇺🇸. I love writing technical content and digging into the internals of the various tools and frameworks in the AI and data ecosystem, and I'm always dabbling in or building something new in Python 🐍 and Rust 🦀. I'm a huge proponent of open source software and open knowledge-sharing, both in person and through my writing in this blog.

I'm a fan of hard sci-fi, and have a soft spot for books that feature space exploration, interplanetary travel and other deep physics themes that allow us to dream about the limits of what's possible. In my spare time, I enjoy hiking, biking, exploring nature and trying out new teas. If you like what you're reading here, consider buying me a coffee/tea using the button below!

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Favourite sci-fi books

• The Three-body Problem, by Cixin Liu
• The Dark Forest, by Cixin Liu
• Death's End, by Cixin Liu
• Aurora, by Kim Stanley Robinson

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About this blog

What began as a personal journey of writing down my learnings eventually led to this blog finding enthusiastic readers from all over the planet! 🌎

Many thanks to all readers who read my posts, and to all those who've indulged with me in nerdy technical discussions over the years!