Hello Internet, I am a Machine Learning professional based in New York City. Here are some details about my work.

Jobs

I'm currently a Staff ML Software Engineer at Google. Previously I've been a ML Engineering Manager at Chegg, where I led a team focusing on multimodal question answering. Before that, I was working on recommender systems and NLP at Taboola.

Open Source

I worked with Ontocord to create the multilingual Large Language Model Aurora-M. Previously, I took a small part in the LAION OpenAssistant project.

Academic Publications

  • Aurora-M: The First Open Source Multilingual Language Model Red-teamed according to the U.S. Executive Order. COLING 2025 Industry Track.
  • An algorithm for improving non-local means operators via low-rank approximation. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 25(3):1340–1353, 2016.

Blogging

I write about ML and related subjects on Medium.

Kaggle Competitions

  • Silver Medal (Top 1%) - Feedback Prize - English Language Learning
  • Silver Medal (Top 3%) - Google AI4Code
  • Bronze Medal (Top 6%) - U.S. Patent Phrase to Phrase Matching
Please visit my Kaggle Profile for more details.

Additional Links

LinkedIn | Google Scholar | Github