Previously a Senior Data Engineer at Saifr in Fidelity Labs, where he led the GOST Crawl project (a proprietary search engine using NLP to index derogatory web information) and the Science team.
Education
PhD candidate at the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, advised by Grant Van Horn.
Background
CS PhD Candidate, interested in improving fine-grained classification and question-answering abilities of multimodal systems. Particularly motivated by ensuring visually-grounded VLM responses, evaluating NLG responses, and steering predictions with expert knowledge via language.