About Me

For as long as i can remember, I have been trying to question everything. To question, by definition, is to solicit information. To question everything, is to solicit all information.. Thus, for as long as I can remember, i have been striving to understand everything..

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I study the driving forces behind the emergence of life and intelligence, I want to bring about what I see as the next stage of its evolution in the universe. People may call this artificial intelligence, but in my view, true AI, will not be 'artificial'. It will be very much alive, and I view it as the next stage in the evolution of life in the universe. 

I'm a Machine Intelligence Research Scientist for Vector Space Biosciences. VSB originated from Mina J. Bissell's genomics lab at Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory. I initiated our research collaboration with CERN and lead a project to use our proprietary unsupervised learning, and natural language processing methods to analyze data from the LHC in order to find hidden patterns within the particle collision data that humans have yet to discover. This relationship also resulted in me getting us the Timepix radiation detecting chip onboard our biological CubeSat payload that's being prepared to be launched into Space.

My primary interest is highly interdisciplinary, connecting concepts from cognitive science, computational neuroscience, neurobiophysics, complexity theory, and others. 

I've authored a paper with my Mentor and Colleague Nell Watson, developing a novel theory behind how the brain works. We connect it with entropy maximization, which we view as a fundamental driving force behind the emergence of all intelligence and complexity in the universe. I've lectured at Oxford, presenting theories and ideas to several post grads and post docs, including the neuroscientist Selen Atasoy. 

We believe our theories may be key to creating true AI. And we view its creation as similar to lighting a fire. As in when you make a fire, you don't really 'create' anything, the energy that made the fire was always there, and all one really did. Was setup the appropriate conditions for it to arise, 'lighting the spark' to catalyze its emergence. 

"Nature’s answer to those who sought to control nature through programmable machines is to allow us to build machines whose nature is beyond programmable control." - George Dyson

         This video from Richard Feynman, speaks to my heart, and I feel conveys beautifully my curiosity for the world.

Another video, showing a lecture from Richard Feynman on the subtle but I feel important differences between knowing, and understanding.