He is a graduate teaching assistant for Artificial Intelligence at the University of Pennylvania. His latest work includes Wampa World, a homework assignment on logical inference for knowledge-based agents, Poodle, a scheduling app for people who receive round-the-clock care, and Unimax, a chess engine art piece that envisions a world where cooperative algorithms supersede adversarial ones.

He has made music under the band name Anima & Ennui, and has accompanied Emma Geiger, Talitha Ferri, and Donovan Ryan on guitar. He is currently exploring guitar arrangements with with dynamically modulated polyrhythms and shifting time signatures.

He works part time at Red Tail Grains Farm & Mill & Bakery, and worked for many years as a bicycle courier, caregiver, project manager at a record label, and bartender. He loves baking dark rye bread in his toaster oven and pizza in his wood-fired oven. He is a novice and aspiring gardener and stoneworker. Every now and then, he wishes he could spend all day every day running, biking, hiking, saunaing and jumping in cold water.