I'm currently working as a code monkey for Morgan Stanley. Last year, I finished my Master's at McGill University (supervised by Doina Precup). I hail originally from Bucharest, Romania, but have since relocated to Montreal (with an intermediate stop in Ottawa). Despite popular belief, it was not for the weather.
In my past life as a research nerd, I was interested in learning approximate predictive representations of partially observable models, taking in consideration the agent's interest in the world. More on that on the research page.
meerkats, design, football (round ball kind),
weird/obscure words (myrmecophilous), but not using them in sentences
any hours before noon, comma splices, spiders, trivia,
below average typography
Neelix
zombies (the running kind), velociraptors (the not-to-scale kind),
the fall of the subjunctive
Gonzo the Great