Keep the Internet Open with Open Source AI

I’ve built AI systems in academia, government, and industry; now I’m leading a growing team building the open source stack they should have run on.

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I am CEO of Mozilla.ai, where we are building a world where open source AI models and tooling become the easy default for everyone to choose. Previously, I was co-founder and Chief Scientist at Arthur, where we developed and deployed enterprise-grade AI systems. I was also a tenured professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, with a joint appointment in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). I hold a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon.

I enjoy mentorship, and actively advise, and more recently invest in, startups and nonprofits; I have a soft spot for UMD- and CMU-founded firms. An example is GovShop, which provides market intelligence to public sector buyers and suppliers. Another is Relace, building fast and efficient language models for coding agents. And, a while ago, I built the earliest allocation and pricing products at Optimized Markets.

The academic research that I have and continue to lead has been supported by an NSF CAREER award, as well as grants from NIST, NSA, DARPA, ARPA-E, NIH (R01), NSF, and generous gifts from industry partners such as Google. I've been involved with worldwide blood donation with Facebook. I've also been heavily involved in the world of organ allocation for more than a decade, primarily through the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS).