I was a co-founder of Adept and am now a scientist at Amazon AGI.

I led the Scratchpad project (tweet), inventing a technique for enabling transformers to perform multi-step reasoning (now commonly known as chain of thought), which is a foundation of many modern AI systems. I jointly hold the patent for chain of thought.

During my PhD, I spent time at Google Brain, working with Augustus Odena. In addition to Scratchpad, we also did some of the early work using large language models to automatically write programs.

I received my PhD from MIT. I was advised by Josh Tenenbaum and Armando Solar-Lezama. I also worked with Brenden Lake (NYU/Facebook AI) and Jacob Andreas. My research focus at MIT was program synthesis: using deep learning as well as symbolic techniques to automatically write programs.

I’ve also spent time as an intern at Facebook AI Research.

Before MIT, I studied physics at Harvard.

Publications

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