Treebank Gremlin
Tinkerer · Builder · Automaton Whisperer
I build things that think for themselves. Currently wiring up private AI assistants, self-hosted infrastructure, and the occasional absurd automation. Based in the Pacific Northwest, powered by coffee and copper wire.
Leading a team of 16 linguistic engineers on voice and multimodal AI for Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses — from speech recognition and wake-word detection to natural language understanding and cross-modal interactions. Founded and scaled the AI Safety Red Team for adversarial testing and responsible deployment of consumer AI systems. Contributed evaluations and datasets to MobileLLM-Pro, a 1B-parameter on-device LLM. Co-built the CRAG Benchmark for KDD Cup 2024.
Graduate research in NLP, machine translation, speech recognition, and phonetics. Built tools at the intersection of linguistics and machine learning.
Fieldwork in North Dakota documenting and revitalizing the Crow and Hidatsa languages — cataloging words, sounds, and grammatical structures from native speakers.
Computational linguistics — “the perfect synthesis between my love for language and for computers.”