Co-founder — Mycelic
Nov 2025 — present
Co-founder at a stealth-stage startup in Austin. Building. More public soon.
Most of what I build starts from a paper or a model someone else made and ends with something that has to actually run on a piece of hardware in front of a real user. Right now that means co-founding Mycelic and researching memory architectures for LLMs in Dr. Justin Hart's lab at UT Austin.
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Co-founder at a stealth-stage startup in Austin. Building. More public soon.
Built a memory pipeline for human-robot interaction inside Dr. Justin Hart's Autonomous Robots stream: DeepFace for facial recognition, a Neo4j knowledge graph as the persistent store, and an LLM-controlled "memory manager" that decides what gets written, read, and consolidated as a robot has repeated conversations with the same people. Investigating whether structured graph memory survives long-running interaction in ways that flat RAG can't.
Co-founded an AI-driven productivity app built around a "quest" mechanic — users committed to tasks and an AI verified completion through optional proof modalities. Built the Flutter MVP for an Android-first launch.
Trained a YOLO model on a labeled dataset of office supplies for confidentiality risk detection during remote work. Extended into emotion / engagement detection from facial cues.
A 1080p Jetson Orin Nano camera streams to a workstation running Meta's TRIBE v2 brain-encoding model. ~192 unit / integration / contract tests. The whole UI is honest about what it isn't.
Designed in Fusion 360, 3D-printed, training to walk. Embedded firmware in C++ on Arduino; policy in Python with PPO and A2C.
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Email [email protected], or find me on GitHub and LinkedIn.
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