Hi! I’m Patrick, a scientist and engineer passionate about building AI for social good at scale. 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 beyond. 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.

Beyond my work at Ai2, I advise non-profits on how to leverage AI for science, sustainability, and biomedical research, and I also consult for hedge funds on the future of AI. I host a monthly seminar at Ai2 on applied AI, many of these talks are available on YouTube. Outside of AI, I’ve had the opportunity to help found a medical clinic in Haiti and a bicycle co-operative in Montréal.

Before joining Ai2, I led a variety of zero-to-one applied ML products across startups, tech, and academia (CMU, McGill, and the University of Pittsburgh). During my Ph.D. I focused on brain decoding and learning at the CNUP and CNBC. Afterwards, I joined a startup and built real-time neural decoding models and streaming computer vision systems for facial recognition and object detection (acquisition press release). During my master’s at CMU, I explored recurrent neural networks and causal inference. Before graduate school, I studied math and logic at McGill and spent a lot of time riding a Marinoni through Montréal’s icy streets. I have also worked on hybrid CV-NLP modeling. I have published a little across neuroscience, biomedical research, and applied machine learning.

I now live in the majestic Pacific Northwest with my wife and our two young boys. Lately I’ve been exploring the science of home espresso, which is proving quite useful :).

  1. Note to prospective applicants: we receive an overwhelming number of applications for open roles. Regretfully, I cannot respond to every inquiry. ↩