Hi, I'm Tim, some person who loves his cat. As I write this, I'm wandering around, with no clear objective, and a growing skepticism that I will ever have or need one.
I like cooking foods that call to mind good memories. I like progressive rock, soulful house, and ambient music. I like to check my body at the door before I catch the ghost and put it all out on the floor.
I'm a former software engineer who enjoys tinkering with home automation, machine learning, and natural language processing. I'm a recent graduate of Universität Osnabrück's cognitive science department.
At my undergraduate university UCLA, I studied linguistics and computer science. I did a bit of research on language acquisition at UC Irvine and then worked on automatic speech recognition at Intel and Soundhound.
I also spend a significant portion of my time exploring physical and performing arts. My main interests are in , , and .
I live out of a suitcase, and I'm currently based in New York City looking for research work in computational cognitive science or motor skill acquisition.
Projects
EEG Biometric Authentication
Identifying people from their brain waves, and whether listening to music makes it easier.
Acrobatic AnimateDiff
Turning footage of capoeira movements into stylized animations with Stable Diffusion
Implementing Inverse Q-Learning
A reimplementation and analysis of IQ-Learn, an algorithm for learning from expert demonstrations.
Writings
From AI Ethics to Human Rights
A few thoughts after attending the Mila Summer School on Responsible AI and Human Rights.
Understanding Synaptic Plasticity Algorithms
How do synapses learn without backpropagation? A look at spike-timing-dependent plasticity.
Hodgkin Huxley Model
The electricity and biochemistry I had to learn before this model of the neuron made any sense.