I'm a research fellow in the Stanford University Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. I completed my PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Stanford, funded by the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. My current research is focused on decision-making in safety-critical, climate, and space systems, where operational decisions must be made safely and correctly while still being explainable and usable by human stakeholders. I love space exploration and solving hard problems with good people.

I'm currently the Executive Director of the Stanford Center for AI Safety, and a post-doctoral research with appointments in Mineral-X and the Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory (SISL). I also consult with companies, particularly space start-ups, on technical leadership, software engineering, engineering operations, and technical analysis. I'm open to new opportunities.

Prior to this, I started and led the Spacecraft Operations Group at Capella Space, the first US Commercial Synthetic Aperture Radar Earth Imaging constellation. There I developed the system that led to the first fully-automated collection to deleivery of radar satellite imagery from a commerical constellation. I subsequently started and led the Constellation Operations and Space Safety Groups at Project Kuiper. Most recently, I was a Princiapl Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services, where I worked on building software services for large-scale distributed edge compute applications.