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Career

· Visiting Scholar, Stanford University2024–
· Co-Founder And CTO, Terra AI2023–
· Executive Director Of The Stanford Center For AI Safety, Stanford University2021–2024
· Postdoctoral Researcher - Stanford Intelligent Systems Lab, Stanford University2021–2024
· Research Intern, NASA Ames Research Center2019–2019
· Graduate Student Researcher - Stanford Intelligent Systems Lab, Stanford University2018–2021
· Graduate Student Researcher - Space Environment And Satellite Systems Lab, Stanford University2015–2018
· Co-Founder And Numerics Lead, Xplicit Computing, Inc2014–2017
· Team Leader For The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Clinic Project., Harvey Mudd College2013–2014
· Technical Intern, Matterport: 3D for the Real World2013–2013
· Software Testing Intern, Vertex Business Services2011–2011
· Technical Intern, Altrec.com2008–2008

Publications (43)

A Survey of Algorithms for Black-Box Safety Validation
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research · 2020
197
cited
Adaptive Stress Testing with Reward Augmentation for Autonomous Vehicle Validatio
International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems · 2019
109
cited
Verification of Image-based Neural Network Controllers Using Generative Models
2021
52
cited
Interpretable Safety Validation for Autonomous Vehicles
2020 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) · 2020
29
cited
Scalable Autonomous Vehicle Safety Validation through Dynamic Programming and Scene Decomposition
2020 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) · 2020
24
cited
BetaZero: Belief-State Planning for Long-Horizon POMDPs using Learned Approximations
2023
11
cited
Big Social Data and GIS: Visualize Predictive Crime
2016
11
cited
A Holistic Assessment of the Reliability of Machine Learning Systems
arXiv.org · 2023
10
cited
The Adaptive Stress Testing Formulation
arXiv.org · 2020
10
cited
Online Planning for Constrained POMDPs with Continuous Spaces through Dual Ascent
2022
9
cited
We Know Where You Are Tweeting From: Assigning a Type of Place to Tweets Using Natural Language Processing and Random Forests
2014
9
cited
A POMDP Model for Safe Geological Carbon Sequestration
2022
8
cited
Model-based Validation as Probabilistic Inference
2023
8
cited
Risk-Driven Design of Perception Systems
Neural Information Processing Systems · 2022
8
cited
AVOIDDS: Aircraft Vision-based Intruder Detection Dataset and Simulator
2023
7
cited
GIS, Big Data, and a Tweet Corpus Operationalized via Natural Language Processing
2015
7
cited
Toward Predictive Crime Analysis via Social Media, Big Data, and GIS Spatial Correlation
2015
7
cited
Artificial Intelligence-Centric Low-Enthalpy Geothermal Field Development Planning
2024
6
cited
Efficient Determination of Safety Requirements for Perception Systems
Symposium on Dependable Autonomic and Secure Computing · 2023
6
cited
ConstrainedZero: Chance-Constrained POMDP Planning using Learned Probabilistic Failure Surrogates and Adaptive Safety Constraints
2024
5
cited
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