About
Mechanisms, music, manufacturing, cognitive science, and AI systems.
AI/ML research engineer · physical systems
I find the real problem, then build the system that can answer it.
I work where models meet physical constraints: robotics, CAD, manufacturing, agent environments, and high-stakes software.
Based in Santa Barbara. Open to ambitious Bay Area teams, including a staged move north, and to unusually strong remote work.
Selected work
From physical constraints to inspectable evidence.
Robot motion planning for real welds
A test-driven planning harness that compares candidate robot paths against reachability, collision risk, motion quality, torch angle, and cycle time.
Read the project briefSeeFind the decision hiding inside the noise.
ShapeGive the team a clearer object to work on.
TestTurn taste into evidence and the next move.
Explore
Research Map
Cursed regions, cognitive security, graph boundaries, agent environments, and physical AI.
Resume
Public resume variants for systems, research, security, and physical-world ML.
Marginalia
Fragments and working principles on design, intelligence, attention, work, and narrative.
Current Themes
Applied Epistemics
Make the environment truthful before asking the model to improve.
Agent Environments
Post-training depends on state, tools, traces, verifiers, and localized feedback.
Mabie Industries
Verifier-backed AI systems for expert workflows where failure has a real cost.
Blog
Three Alignment Architectures
Self, ground, ascent, and why alignment keeps returning to ancient metaphysical forks.
A Compression Ecology
Why attention needs a motivational vector—and why instinct or reason alone cannot orient a mind beyond what it already knows.
Fiction is All That is Seen
When perception is partial, narrative bridges what we see, what we infer, and what we are prepared to believe.
Narrative Architecture
Harmony, analogy, narrative, and the structures through which we make sense of the world.
Mindful at Every Step
How James Clerk Maxwell joined disciplined analogy, philosophical caution, and scientific faith.