Hi! My name is Patrick. I am a scientist and engineer passionate about building AI for social good. I lead a team at the Allen Institute for Artifical Intelligence (AI2) building AI for Earth.

I received a Ph.D. from the Center for Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at Carnegie Mellon University. My dissertation focused on how neural patterns of activity evolve during learning. Before that, I studied recurrent neural networks and causal inference at CMU. I went to McGill for undergrad, researched ecology and biodiversity, and spent a lot of my time learning to ride a fixed gear on icy streets :).