I'm a Senior AI Research Scientist at Meta Reality Labs, where I lead research on building a generative world model to power the next generation of immersive experiences — enabling the recreation — and creation — of memories and environments from everyday photos and casual inputs.

I completed my PhD at Berkeley advised by Professor Angjoo Kanazawa, where I focused on extending 3D reconstruction (and generation) to casual captures — mobile phone videos, TV shows, and cartoons. You can find my PhD dissertation talk recording here!

Previously I was an undergraduate and Master's student at MIT, where I was fortunate to work with and learn from Professor Antonio Torralba. I'm passionate about helping others with technological solutions.

I grew up in a small town in rural Wisconsin, where I started building things long before I knew what research was — many of those early projects are on this site. When I'm not tinkering, I enjoy movie nights, board games, (country) music, guitar, escape rooms, jump rope, or firing up my Weber grill