Hi! My name is Patrick. I am a scientist and engineer passionate about building AI for good. I lead an AI team at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2) My work includes both research and engineering on large-scale multi-modal planetary modeling supporting a wide variety of applications. You can read more about my team’s work here. I live with my wife and and two young boys in the majestic Pacific Northwest. Lately, I have been exploring home espresso (which is coming in handy).

Previously I worked on applied machine learning at a few startups, in tech, and in academia (CMU, McGill, and U. Pitt). I received a Ph.D. from the Center for Neuroscience and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at CMU. My dissertation focused on neural plasticity, learning, and decoding. Before that, I worked on recurrent neural networks and causal inference. I went to McGill for undergrad, researched ecology and biodiversity, studied a little math and logic, and spent a lot of time riding a beautiful Marinoni on Montreal’s icy streets :).