Resume
Research faculty at Georgia Tech and former CTO & co-founder of PerceptivePanda, an AI-powered enterprise feedback platform acquired by Zapier. Stanford PhD in Linguistics with a dissertation on the formal semantics of comparative constructions. Created the natural language technology behind Tableau's Ask Data and holds 9 patents in natural language interfaces for data visualization. Previously led cross-cloud analytics integration and AI strategy at Salesforce, and built the core NLP pipeline at ClearGraph (acquired by Tableau). Directed operations and content strategy at Style at a Certain Age. Founded a private tutoring practice in the Bay Area. Northwestern BA, Fulbright Scholar at the University of Amsterdam, with deep expertise in NLP, AI, and software engineering at scale.
Timeline
Experience
Education
Honors & Awards
PerceptivePanda
- StartX '24 Summer Cohort
Salesforce
- Most Patents Filed and Granted — 2022
- AI Northstar Council — Elected 2022, 2023
ClearGraph
- Celent Model Bank Award
Stanford University
- Phi Beta Kappa Fellowship
University of Amsterdam
- Fulbright Fellow
Northwestern University
- Cum Laude
- Honors, Linguistics
- Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
- Demoz Paper Award — Linguistics Department
St. John's School
- National Honor Society
- National Merit Scholar Semi-Finalist
Selected Publications
- "Inferencing underspecified natural language utterances in visual analysis." Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. 2019.
- "A constructive solution to the ranking problem in Partial Order Optimality Theory." Journal of Logic, Language & Information. 2017.
- "Synthetic logic." Linguistic Issues in Language Technology. 2014.
