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Studio
Custom partscaster I built around a 1965 strat neck. The neck is original, and the body is from an 80s Fullerton factory reissue. I purchased some awesome hand-wound pickups and soldered everything together. Other gear pictured: Hook Wizard, Marshall BluesBreaker, T-Rex Mudhoney II, Cali76 Compressor, Klon KTR, Martin 00-15M, Dr. Z cab. 
One of the many pedal boards I’ve built over the years. This one showcases some of my favorite pedals: Analogman Fuzzface and the Klon KTR. 
EZG 50 tube amp in red. Easily one of my favorite amps.
Garage
I started flying airplanes at 15. There's nothing quite like the internal combustion engine, in all its forms.
FAA Infinity Stones
- Private Pilot; Airplane Single Engine Land
- Complex Endorsement
- High Performance Endorsement
- Instrument Rating; Airplane
- Ground Instructor; Advanced
- Ground Instructor; Instrument
- Remote Pilot; Small Unmanned Aircraft System
Airplanes
Non-exhaustive list of airplanes I enjoy flying.
Gamebird GB1 
Mooney M20J 
Pitts Special 
Cessna 182 
Piper Archer
Wish list, if you can get me a ride please reach out:
- P51 Mustang (or any WW2 warbird)
- T-38 (or jet of any kind)
- SpaceX Dragon
Cars
Vehicles I've owned and worked on.
1999 Porsche BoxsterPorsche flat 6 · 5 speed manual · Something was always broken, but incredible to drive 
2020 Porsche 718 SpyderPorsche flat 6 · 6 speed manual 
2019 Subaru WRX STISubaru flat 4 · 6 speed manual 
2016 Ford Mustang GTFord V8 · 6 speed manual
Motorcycles
Motorcycles I owned before getting hit by a car in downtown LA.
Harley Davidson Iron 883Harley Davidson Evolution V-twin 883 cc
Publications
- studied electrical engineering and computer science at USC
- four years as an applied AI researcher at Sandia National Labs
- dropped out of a PhD program in quantum physics to work in industry
Patents
Papers
- Near-Term Advances in Quantum Natural Language Processing
- Acoustic Signatures in Metal Laser-Powder Bed Fusion
- Development of Novel Approaches to Anomaly Detection and Surety for Safeguards Data
- Packet2Vec: Utilizing Word2Vec for Feature Extraction in Packet Data
Software
Expeditions
- North America
- US: SF Bay Area (born and raised), Los Angeles (where I went to college), New York City (where I live now), Seattle, D.C., Chicago, Portland, Boston, Denver, Salt Lake City, Dallas, Juneau, Ketchikan
- Canada: Montreal, Vancouver, Victoria
- Europe
- Ireland: Dublin, Liscannor
- UK: London, Belfast
- Spain: Barcelona
- Italy: Rome, Venice, Florence, Pisa
- France: Paris
- Croatia: Split, Dubrovnik
- Poland: Warsaw, Kraków, Zakopane, Gdańsk, Wrocław
- Montenegro: Bay of Kotor
- Africa
- Tunisia: Tunis, Sfax
- Asia
- China: Beijing, Shanghai, Baotou, Ordos
- Hong Kong: Hong Kong
- Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh City
- Japan: Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Nagano, Niseko, Sapporo
Travel gear
Observer Collection rucksack. 
Leica Q2 Reporter Edition. 
Canon P rangefinder with a Voigtländer f/1.5 Nokton Aspherical and a clip-on meter in the cold shoe.