Hello there. Nice to make your acquaintance. If you are here for my blog, hop over to the "Normative Decoherence" page.
I left academia after a 14-year run — most recently as an assistant professor of computer science at Missouri S&T, following a PhD from George Mason University under Dana Richards and a postdoc at LSU's Center for Computation & Technology. It was fun working with a few very smart people. I started in evolutionary computation, and hopped to a different field every few years; notable ones are — graph theory and algorithms (routing problems), sorting and random-order theory in high dimensions, online algorithms (min-cut and k-server problem), and finally quantum computing (quantum walks, circuit compilation, and quantum chaos).
I now lead Semiqlassical, a startup I co-founded with Emily Hsiang.
The "Semiqlassical" project, and thus the company, was inspired by the observation that some of the most intricate building blocks and dynamical systems of nature — biochemical networks — seem to lie at the scale where limited quantum effects intermingle with classical dynamics, driving phase transitions. I focus on creating a niche of understanding and building systems that can better model these systems, leading to the discovery and design of new molecules and other nanoscale compute and information systems.
My personal blog, where I think out loud about computation, physics, building a company, and whatever sits in the messy space between the formal and the human.
Read the blog~A Grook about Grooks~
If you wish to write a Grook
that's witty and smart,
then don't go on reading a crook
like this for a start.