I’ll be joining the University of Colorado Boulder as an
assistant professor in computer science starting Fall 2026 and will be
recruiting PhD students. If my research interests you please consider
applying to the CS PhD program and mentioning my name in your
application.
I’m also a jazz alto saxophone player 🎷 and always interested in
chances to jam. Shoot me an email if you’d like to talk about anything
below.
Current Interests
How to make machine learning models more interpretable
Computational universality with errors:
How can processes with limited accuracy perform universal computations?
Algorithmic capabilities of neural networks
Evolution of language
Connections between evolution and learning
Teaching computer science and music improvisation together:
Learning to improvise within classes of
"regular" riffing patterns, adding a "stack", etc.
What is "creativity"?
Ongoing Projects
Emergence of abstraction: developing a computational
model in which symbolic language and abstraction are emergent outcomes
of computation
DSL synthesis: theory and algorithms for
automatically synthesizing DSLs that
express relevant domain concepts succinctly and irrelevant ones less
succinctly or not at all
