I am a Ph.D. stu­dent of Cog­ni­tive Psy­chol­o­gy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Col­orado in Boul­der. Don't be fooled by the name of the field: I spend my time making mathematical and computational models — I'm passionate about machine learning and artificial intelligence. I am pri­mar­i­ly in­ter­est­ed in com­put­er mod­els of learn­ing and rep­re­sen­ta­tion. You can read more about my re­search on my academic page.

RE: Programming

I have been programming longer than I can remember, doing it for work and for fun. There's been lots of MATLAB, C, Objective-C, python, Java, and R (and historically, Logo, BASIC, and MIPS and ARM assembly). See a portfolio of some of my Projects.

I'm passionate about designing and writing excellent software whether it's for science, utilities to make my life a little easier, or my more recent ventures into writing user-facing sotware with a larger install base than I ever bargained for.

RE: Website

This website is backed by a custom CMS coded in python by yours truly and runs on Google App Engine. It can take as much of a beating as I've been able to get the web to throw at it (peak > 1000 hits per day; average > 100 hits per day) and operates at minimal expense ― it was free until Google changed the billing scheme for AppEngine apps.

RE: Music

I'm self­-­taught on the gui­tar, and have been play­ing since about 2001. Some videos I made of my play­ing gained some pop­u­lar­i­ty on YouTube around 2006. I have been slowly or­ga­niz­ing a bunch of record­ings I have ly­ing around, and even­tu­al­ly putting them in the music sec­tion of this site.