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After living a somewhat nomadic post-college life for 20 years, my wife and I settled in Kailua, Hawaii where we are raising two boys and two furry canine girls (dogs). We had previously spent 10 years of our youth living in San Francisco, a city we consider our home town in the US. In 2009, my wife's clinical rotations and medical residency and my job allowing me to go fully remote turned us into true nomads and we spent a couple of years living in a variety of places, including Sacramento (CA), Manhattan (NY), Santa Monica (CA), Honolulu and Kailua (HI), and finally, St. Pete Beach and Tierra Verde (FL). We settled down in Cambridge, MA for my wife to finish her residency while I decided to temporarily return to academia and pursue my PhD at MIT. Several degrees later for both of us, a startup experience behind my belt, and after a series of brutal winter storms, in 2019 we decided to move back to balmy California. In the fall of 2020 and in the midst of the pandemic, we made our final move to what we consider our permanent home - Kailua, HI.

I love traveling, hiking, swimming, diving, tennis, kayaking, skiing or just about any outdoor activity. My family also loves to sample restaurants of any ethnic cuisine (especially sushi!), watch movies, musicals and comedy shows. Since we've become parents, most of my free time is spent playing with the kids at a nearby park or beach.

One of my greatest passions is photography, especially underwater photography. I try to squeeze in a dive trip every now and then. I've had the pleasure to dive on every island of Hawaii including Oahu, Maui, the Big Island, Kauai, Ni'ihau, and Molokai, throughout the Carribean including Roatan and Utila (Honduras), Little Cayman Island (Cayman Islands), Curaçao, and Bonaire. I have also dived in Mexico including the Sea of Cortez, the island of Cozumel, Riviera Maya and its world-famous freshwater cenotes (caves). Further out, I've dived the Bahamas, West Palm Beach (Florida), the Adriatic Sea (Croatia), and the French Island of Reunion (in the Indonesian Ocean). I occasionaly enter underwater photography competitions. My biggest success so far has been winning the First Prize in the Wide Angle Unrestricted category at The Digital Shootout in Little Cayman organized by Backscatter.

I am very much interested in underwater diving safety and continue to improve my diving skills. I am a certified PADI Divemaster and a DAN (Dive Alert Network) member.

As for my professional life, I am a Director of Engineering and Lead Architect at Woven by Toyota, Toyota's software subsidiary that builds Toyota's Software-Defined Vehicle Platform and AD/ADAS software for a number of verticals including personally owned vehicles, mobility-as-a-service vehicle platforms and more specialized B2B applications. As an Engineering Lead of our L2++ program, I primarily focus on defining the software architecture and leading the development of the Autonomy stack. My own org manages a number of verticals covering all aspects of Perception and Mapping, Motion Prediction, the Autonomy infrastructure and ML platform. I additionally lead or have major influence over the definition of our sensor architecture and edge-compute platform. Finally, I participate in strategic initiatives that span the Toyota family of companies, advise our CTO and our in-house investor arm and growth fund, Woven Capital. Before Woven by Toyota, I was the head of the LiDAR Perception team at Lyft's Level 5 Autonomous Vehicle program.

In previous phases of my careeer, I have worked in the areas of 3D printing and manufacturing, CPU and GPU architectures, and 3D graphics for the film and gaming industry.

In 2017 I co-founded Inkbit, a 3D printing startup where I led the engineering team that built the first 3D printer for volume manufacturing with a precise, machine-vision/AI driven closed-loop process control.

From 2012 to 2017 I was a PhD student and a member of the Computational Fabrication Group and the Computer Graphics Group within CSAIL at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). My research advisor was Prof. Wojciech Matusik.

Before that, I spent 12 years working in industry as a graphics software engineer and researcher. From 2008 to 2012 I was a member of the Advanced Rendering Technology group at Intel, researching real-time rendering algorithms for use in the entertainment industry and influencing Intel's CPU and GPU architecture. From 2000 until 2008 I was a member of the R&D group at Pixar Animation Studios, with a stint as a Technical Director on the movie Cars. My film credits include Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, and WALL-E.