I’m a Senior Research Scientist at Microsoft and UC Berkeley. My goal is to build safe, intelligent agents that make decisions in the open world using planning, RL, and LLMs. To do this, I develop formal/empirical approaches to decision making in intelligent agents, focusing on AI assistants, self-driving cars, humanoid robots, and planetary rovers.
Before that, I completed my PhD in Computer Science under Shlomo Zilberstein in the Resource-Bounded Reasoning Lab at UMass Amherst. My dissertation introduced a range of metareasoning techniques that optimize—particularly monitor and control—the planning and execution processes that compose intelligent agents.
Recently, I’ve won a Distinguished Paper Award at AAAI, received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and was a Distinguished Teaching Award Finalist at UMass Amherst.
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Marist College
BS in Computer Science and Philosophy
4.0 — Valedictorian — NSF Technology Full Scholarship
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UMass Amherst
MS/PhD in Computer Science
4.0 — PhD Candidate with Distinction — NSF Graduate Research Fellowship