Since 2016 I've been working on machine perception at Google. From 2012-2016 I worked at Duolingo, where I led a team devoted to optimizing learning efficacy. From 2008-2012 I worked on AdWords at Google Pittsburgh.
In December 2007 I graduated from the CMU Computer Science PhD program, after defending my thesis. I then spent a semester as a postdoc in the CMU Robotics Institute, working with my graduate advisor Stephen Smith.
Before coming to CMU I worked with John Koza at Genetic Programming, Inc. using evolutionary algorithms to synthesize analog electrical circuits. In 2005 we received a patent for one of our evolved circuits. It is one of the first patents ever granted for a machine-generated invention, and has prompted a patent law puzzle as well as some theological confusion.
ICML 2018
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Best Paper,
EDM 2015
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with Brendan McMahan,
NIPS 2014
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with Brendan McMahan,
NIPS 2012
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with Brendan McMahan,
COLT 2010
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with Daniel Golovin and Andreas Krause,
NIPS 2009
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with Brendan McMahan,
COLT 2009
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with Daniel Golovin,
NIPS 2008
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with Stephen Smith,
UAI 2008
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with Daniel Golovin and Stephen Smith,
AAAI 2007
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with Daniel Golovin and Stephen Smith,
AAAI 2007
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with Stephen Smith,
ICAPS 2007
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with Stephen Smith,
CP 2006
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with Stephen Smith,
AAAI 2006
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with Stephen Smith,
ICAPS 2006
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with Stephen Smith,
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2006
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with Stephen Smith,
ICAPS 2005
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GECCO 2004
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GECCO 2003
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with John Koza, Martin Keane, Bill Mydlowec, Jessen Yu, and Guido Lanza,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003
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with John Koza and Martin Keane,
Scientific American, 2003
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with John Koza and Martin Keane,
IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2003
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with Lee Becker,
Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 2003
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EuroGP 2003
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with Martin Keane and John Koza,
ICONS 2003
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with Martin Keane and John Koza,
GECCO 2002
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Automatic synthesis of an improved general-purpose controller for industrially-representative plants
with Martin Keane and John Koza,
Evolvable Hardware 2002
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