I'm an entrepreneur, AI researcher and engineer living in San Francisco. I build things, write code and help fellow founders with their startups.
These days, I have been focusing on AI progress, new model capabilities, System 1 and System 2, agents, and new (not saturated) benchmarks for AI models.
I enjoy coding, training AI models, building AI systems and tools, and helping other fellow entrepreneurs.
I cofounded Fellow AI, an AI and Robotics company based in the San Francisco Bay Area, to optimize supply chain with autonomous robots (built the LoweBot, Oshbot, and Cobot robots).
I spent some time in Japan doing AI and robotics research for the Fukushima nuclear accident and working on autonomous wheelchair robots for people with disabilities.
Before that, I used to work at BMW in Munich on robotics and new vehicle design (some of my designs come in the MINI Cooper 2014 series).
I started programming in Assembler and C when I was ~12 years old when I learned about (and loved) the Microchip PIC microcontrollers and enjoyed building robots with them (and joined FIRST Robotics). I started working with SLAM (Lidar), V-SLAM, and CNNs around the AlexNet era (~2012).
Other interests:
- I like to think about and research what made great progress possible in labs with small teams, like ASML (a Philips side project in a shed), the original iPod team, the couple of people who worked on GPT-1, WeChat (a hackathon project inside Tencent), etc.
- Having lived in both San Francisco and Japan, I'm fascinated by the fictional city concept of San Fransokyo, which combines the best of both cities. This interest grew stronger during my time living at the Archive house, where I met some amazing friends.
- I spend some time with friends at a robotics hacker studio (MadSci) in Alamo Square to build side projects on weekends.
- For fun, I enjoy reading books, working on robotics projects, helping friends with their startup ideas, programming, tinkering with electronics, and play ping pong.