Hi! I’m Patrick, a scientist and engineer passionate about building breakthrough AI for good. I lead an AI team at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2), where we develop large-scale, mixed-modality planetary models supporting a range of applications—including climate science, wildfire management, agriculture and food security, maritime intelligence, conservation and sustainability, biodiversity, and ecosystem health, as well as the many interconnections between them. You can learn more about my team’s work here.

Before AI2, I worked in applied machine learning across startups, tech, and academia (CMU, McGill, and U. Pitt). I earned my Ph.D. from the Center for Neuroscience and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at CMU, where my research focused on neural plasticity, learning, and decoding. Earlier, I explored recurrent neural networks and causal inference. As an undergrad at McGill, I studied math and logic and spent a lot of time riding a beautiful Marinoni through Montreal’s icy streets.

I live in the majestic Pacific Northwest with my wife and two young boys. Lately, I’ve been diving into home espresso—something that’s proving quite useful!