I am currently the CEO at Oumi (Open Universal Machine Intelligence). We are on a mission to give the sciences, the industry, and humanity overall the truly open AI it deserves. I hope you all join us on this mission. We can only achieve it, if we work together.
Before Oumi, I was at Google Cloud leading the engineering the science for all the Google Cloud Natural Language and some Multimodal AI services. I bootstrapped there the Cloud PaLM efforts establishing a v-team of over 300 contributors across >30 teams. I led this effort across training/quality, infrastructure, safety, pricing, and anything else it took to get PaLM to General Availability (May 2023). The effort then moved to DeepMind as Gemini and I continued to contribute to it.
I have also worked in the past, in reverse chronological order, at Biscuit Labs, Facebook (Portal Assistant, Integrity), Microsoft (Zo chatbot, Cortana), MIT, Microsoft Research, SMART Center (Singapore), CERN (Geneva, Switzerland), and ICCS (Athens, Greece).
I completed my PhD in Princeton University focusing on mobile-cloud intelligent systems co-design. This work seeded a lot of the ideas for what was seven years later called "edge intelligence."
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Twenty years from now
you will be more dissappointed
by the things that you didn't do
than by the ones you did.
So throw off the bowlines.
sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
If there is no wind, row.
Polish proverb
Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Albert Einstein