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Welcome! I’m Chris, thanks for visiting my page.
Career
I’m a Machine Learning Engineer currently in San Francisco.
Interests
ML Systems, Running, Rowing, National Parks, roller coaster tycoon , Lofi remixes, and the casual chit-chat
Education
Grad / Undergrad Computer Science @ University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Completed Dec 2020
My graduate work was advised by ex-UIUC Stanford professor Sanmi Koyejo; I built the initial federated learning (Arxiv) infrastructure to support privacy preserving computer vision models for hospitals local to the Urbana-Champaign area (Github) This work seeded funding for new NSF project grants. Today Sanmi leads the Stanford Trustworthy AI Laboratory (STAIR).
A brief life timeline
1997: Born
2011: Founded the blazzing hawks, an Xbox 360 Minecraft and Halo clan
2015: Graduated from West Aurora High School
2017: Graduated from Waubonsee Community College
2020: Graduated from University of Illinois a Urbana-Champaign
2021: Joined Uber in February, transitioned from Software Engineering to ML Eng in October
2022: Moved to San Francisco and ran my first half marathon
2024: I wrote this timeline