Hi! I’m Patrick, a scientist and engineer passionate about building AI for good. I lead a new AI team at Ai2 focused on large-scale, mixed-modality planetary intelligence for humanitarian and environmental applications. We work across many areas including sustainability, climate change, wildfire forecasting, agriculture, food security, and more. To make this intelligence as useful as possible, we are building a new open platform called earth-system. We are hiring research scientists and engineers–if you’re excited to advance the state of the art in this space, please reach out! See: https://allenai.org/careers¹.

I host a monthly seminar at Ai2 on applied AI, and many of these talks are available on YouTube. Previously I worked on brain decoding for patient populations and streaming computer vision systems (JHU APL spinout). I hold a Ph.D. in neuroscience, an M.S. in Logic, and a B.A. from McGill. I live in the majestic Pacific Northwest with my wife and our two young boys.

1. Note to prospective applicants, regretfully, I cannot respond to every inquiry. ↩