New York, NY
I spent a decade writing music for people and computers, then five years teaching computers to write music. Now I teach people to work with AI.
Now · Technology
Lead AI Instructor at NYC Data Science Academy and Pluralsight author, teaching machine learning and generative AI to engineers, analysts, and enterprise teams. Previously Chief Scientist at Amper Music (acquired by Shutterstock), Director of AI Research at Shutterstock, and Director of Data Science at Bluecore. Co-inventor on three U.S. patents for generative music technology.
Then · Music
Doctor of Musical Arts in composition. Years of live electronic music, live coding, and free improvisation with Glitch Lich and collaborators across four continents: algoraves in Tokyo and Brighton, new music halls in Shanghai and Berlin, festivals from ICMC to NIME. The archive of those years lives here.
Writing
Four days designing a heavy-lift drone I had no intention of building, with an AI coding agent as the engineering department — then ninety real teams flew the same problem in Dayton. What the simulation predicted, what happened, and what the comparison says about designing aircraft by conversation.