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Career

· Board Member - Supervisory Board, RMZ2024–
· Founder, Stealth Startup2024–
· Research Scientist, Vice President, BlackRock2023–2024
· Research Scientist, BlackRock2021–2023
· Intern, BlackRock2020–2021
· Accel Fellow, Accel Leadership Program2019–2020
· Doctoral Candidate, Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory2018–2021
· Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Stanford University2018–2021
· Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Stanford University2018–2021
· Research Assistant, Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory2017–2021
· Master’s Degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Stanford University2016–2018
· De Pietro Fellowship In Civil Engineering, Harvey Mudd College2015–2016
· Engineering Intern, Berkeley Engineering and Research, Inc.2014–2014
· Bachelor's Degree, Engineering, Harvey Mudd College2014–2016
· Research Analyst, Lowe Institute of Political Economy2013–2015
· Analyst, The CMC Student Investment Fund2013–2015
· Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics, Claremont McKenna College2011–2016

Publications (15)

EnsembleDAgger: A Bayesian Approach to Safe Imitation Learning
IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems · 2018
137
cited
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Event-Driven Multi-Agent Decision Processes
IEEE transactions on intelligent transportation systems (Print) · 2017
57
cited
Structured Mechanical Models for Robot Learning and Control
Conference on Learning for Dynamics & Control · 2020
44
cited
A General Framework for Structured Learning of Mechanical Systems
arXiv.org · 2019
38
cited
DropoutDAgger: A Bayesian Approach to Safe Imitation Learning
arXiv.org · 2017
32
cited
Explaining COVID-19 outbreaks with reactive SEIRD models
2021
30
cited
Scalable Identification of Partially Observed Systems with Certainty-Equivalent EM
International Conference on Machine Learning · 2020
8
cited
Frame Interpolation Using Generative Adversarial Networks
2017
7
cited
Strategic Asset Allocation with Illiquid Alternatives
2022
4
cited
Conditional Approximate Normalizing Flows for Joint Multi-Step Probabilistic Forecasting with Application to Electricity Demand
2022
2
cited
Convolutional Neural Networks for Video Frame Interpolation
2016
1
cited
Multi-Vehicle Control in Roundabouts using Decentralized Game-Theoretic Planning
arXiv.org · 2022
Non-linear System Identification from Partial Observations via Iterative Smoothing and Learning
2019
Optimal Capital Deployment Under Stochastic Deal Arrivals: A Continuous-Time ADP Approach
2025
Training Structured Mechanical Models by Minimizing Discrete Euler-Lagrange Residual
2021
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