He's passionate about using machine learning to facilitate more efficient interactions between people and companies. Prior to Airbnb he was an engineering and data science lead at Metromile, a pay-per-mile car insurance technology startup, and a software engineer on the core relevance and ranking team at Bing. He received his M.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University. He's received 2 patents for his work and has a couple of workshop papers at KDD and IJCAI on deep learning activity recognition and general game playing.