About
Mechanisms, music, manufacturing, cognitive science, and AI systems.
Physical AI · research engineering · product judgment
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.
Current work
Robot motion planning for real welds
I am building a test-driven planning harness for Advanced Metal Research. It represents welds, waypoints, robot poses, and candidate configurations, then scores paths for smooth motion, reachability, collision risk, torch angle, cycle time, and similarity to manual programs.
SeeFind the decision hiding inside the noise.
ShapeGive the team a clearer object to work on.
TestTurn taste into evidence and the next move.
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Selected Work
Robotic weld planning, medical tooling, graph ML, agent environments, and production systems.
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.
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
Attention, motivation, and the inner systems that let a mind move.
Fiction is All That is Seen
Plato's cave, perception, narrative, and the problem of seeing more clearly.
Narrative Architecture
A 2017 slide essay on perception, story, structure, and soundness.