AI/NLP@Google | PhD Linguistics@Berkeley | Postdoc Neuroscience@Northwestern Non-linear career arc: 👨‍💻 AI/NLP @ Google Assistant  👨‍🔬 Research Health Scientist @ Dept of Veterans Affairs 🇺🇸 🧠 Neuroscience Postdoctoral Fellow @ Northwestern 👨‍🎓 PhD Linguistics 🗣️ @ UC Berkeley 🐻 👨‍💻 Code slinger @ Accenture 👨‍🎓 BS Mech Eng @ Rutgers 👋 You'll find me in rooms about neuroscience, language, artificial and natural intelligence, AI ethics, natural language processing, and maybe a bit on consciousness if I'm feeling frisky.  🏆 1985 camp chickami bubble blowing contest champion 🌎  Travelled to 38 countries and I've been to Timbuktu 🥁 Love playing the drums, though not as well as I wish 🎼 Funk, Jazz, Indie, World (esp Malian, Berber, Klezmer), Prog Rock, Post Rock, Classic Rock, Rock Rock  ✡️  Believe Science and Religion can coexist 📜 Find my pubs on Google Scholar ⚙️ Connect with me on LinkedIn 📧 Email me via lastname @ gmail