Senior Staff Research Engineer · Google DeepMind
I build AI systems for media and entertainment — bringing generative models out of the lab and onto stages, screens, and film festivals.
I'm a Senior Staff Research Engineer at Google DeepMind working on applied AI for media and entertainment. I did my PhD in Computer Science at Georgia Tech (2013–2020), advised by Irfan Essa, where I worked on computer vision, scene understanding, and multi-task learning. Before Georgia Tech I earned a BS in Computer Engineering at Clemson (magna cum laude, 2012) and worked as a Cyber Capabilities Developer at NSA/INSCOM.
A reimagining of the 1939 classic for the 16K wraparound display at Las Vegas Sphere. More than 90% of the film was touched by AI — fine-tuned Gemini, Veo, and Imagen models drove super-resolution, outpainting, and character recreation for the immersive format. Opened August 28, 2025. The project received a Lumiere Award.
An artist-first AI-animated short directed by Pixar alum Connie He, previewed at the Sundance Story Forum. New video-to-video workflows let animators rough out content and motion, then transform it into fully stylized, expressionistic video with an adjustable balance between control and improvisation.