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Career

· AI Staff Software Engineer, Alation2025–2025
· Doing Nothing For Two Weeks, Me (Current)2025–
· AI Staff Software Engineer, Stacklok2025–
· Founding Engineer And AI Researcher, Numbers Station AI2022–2025
· Post Doc At Stanford, Stanford University2019–2022
· Summer Research Intern, Microsoft2017–2017
· Summer Research Intern, Microsoft2016–2017
· Summer Engineering Intern, Tableau Software2015–2015
· Computer Science, University of Washington2013–2020
· Graduate Student, University of Washington2013–2019
· Intern, Sandia National Laboratories2012–2014
· Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics and Computer Science, Carleton College2009–2013

Publications (19)

On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models
arXiv.org · 2021
5,795
cited
Holistic Evaluation of Language Models
Trans. Mach. Learn. Res. · 2023
1,324
cited
Can Foundation Models Wrangle Your Data?
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · 2022
290
cited
Ask Me Anything: A simple strategy for prompting language models
International Conference on Learning Representations · 2022
256
cited
Explaining Query Answers with Explanation-Ready Databases
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · 2015
75
cited
Bootleg: Chasing the Tail with Self-Supervised Named Entity Disambiguation
Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research · 2020
49
cited
Pushing Data-Induced Predicates Through Joins in Big-Data Clusters
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · 2019
46
cited
Cross-Domain Data Integration for Named Entity Disambiguation in Biomedical Text
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2021
29
cited
Managing ML Pipelines: Feature Stores and the Coming Wave of Embedding Ecosystems
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · 2021
20
cited
Sample Debiasing in the Themis Open World Database System
SIGMOD Conference · 2020
19
cited
Probabilistic Database Summarization for Interactive Data Exploration
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · 2017
15
cited
EntropyDB: a probabilistic approach to approximate query processing
The VLDB journal · 2019
12
cited
Data Management Opportunities for Foundation Models
Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research · 2022
7
cited
Mosaic: A Sample-Based Database System for Open World Query Processing
Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research · 2019
7
cited
Big-Data Management Use-Case: A Cloud Service for Creating and Analyzing Galactic Merger Trees
DanaC'14 · 2014
6
cited
Goodwill Hunting: Analyzing and Repurposing Off-the-Shelf Named Entity Linking Systems
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2021
6
cited
Data-induced predicates for sideways information passing in query optimizers
The VLDB journal · 2021
3
cited
Clustering with the DBLP Bibliography to Measure External Impact of a Computer Science Research Area
2014
1
cited
Building and Querying Probabilistic Models for Open World Database Systems
2019
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