~whoami: as engineer and leader
At my day job, I’m a generalist – navigating uncertainty and complexity to improve decision-making at scale.
- Responsible for AI Strategy, Decision Science, ML Systems Design
- Historically had many hats – Statistics, ML & Data engineering, AI PM
- Critical applications along the value chain:
- demand forecasting & inventory optimization systems
- recommender systems, NLP for try-at-home
- marketing: acquisition, CRO experiment design, CRM
- I really believe in the idea of Skin in the Game
~whoami: as teacher and researcher
As a teacher, I aspire to contribute to the understanding of AI’s complex landscape; how to navigate it, develop valuable skills, and become more effective at problem-solving.
- Maven (yid: meyvn) – someone experienced to help you find a path
- Graduate of Cybernetics and Quantitative Economics
- Thesis & Dissertation on Bayesian Microeconometrics
- Research in Probabilistic Methods for Time Series
- Started in Systems’ Dynamics and Economic Complexity
- Speaking at conferences
- Teaching since 2021 (ASE, Google Atelier) – 4th iteration
~whoami: as a person
As a person, I aspire to a life of wisdom and meaning. Learning how to be present and deeply understanding what is the good, true, beautiful, love, and friendship.
- Cultivating wisdom – philosophy as a way of life
- Participating in meaningful friendships
- Painting, hiking, coffee, 14 years of pro-ish chess
- Art appreciation: blues, jazz, indie, opera, cinema
- Reading: Cognitive Science, Evolution, Economics
- How it fits together: synoptic integration
On another note, my interests in AI, art, cognitive science, and philosophy have an aspect of science, craft, worldview, and deep participation, engagement. Moreover, they are deeply interconnected and I would even say, synoptically integrated. It is important to me that these conceptual frames fit into a coherent whole and contribute in a practical way towards a good life.
I can’t emphasise enough the importance of different levels of “knowing”: propositional, procedural, perspectival, and participatory – as it is not enough to know the facts (or have beliefs), but to know how to do something, to have a perspective of the “world” and a sense of participation in whatever you’re engaged in.
I mean that we’re agents in different arenas of life and the sense of meaning comes from an attunement to those arenas. We participate in a course of something, which has impact on the environment, which changes us and how we view and relate to the world, self and others.
Unsurprisingly, there will be lots of painting metaphors when it comes to simplicity, and cognitive science references when talking about ways in which we’re biased and foolish. Chess, of course, inspires analogies of competition, strategy, and tactics to its service.