I am an AI researcher and software engineer. I work as an Applied Scientist at Amazon and am a member of the Special Projects Group within Amazon Ads Science (Amazon Science). Before joining Amazon, I was a Machine Learning Research Scientist at the University of Pittsburgh and served as the Associate Director of the PittNAIL Lab, working on all things LLM. At Pitt, I also connected our lab with HealthUnity, where we studied Generative AI, with an emphasis on LLMs and applications in healthcare. Prior to Pitt, I worked as a Research Engineer at DawnLight, a Sequoia Capital-backed Silicon Valley startup in ambient intelligence and edge computing. I also worked for Mayo Clinic as an AI Researcher, focusing on transformer models and graph-based methods.

I hold a bachelor's degree in both Computer Science and Mathematics from Luther College. During my time at college, I did collaborative and individual research in Topology (math), Automated Unit Testing, Artificial Intelligence and Authorship Attribution, and Programming Languages and Type Theory. Prior to college, I was a college dropout and worked as a Salesman and Marketing Coordinator at Insta, a reputable Electrical Engineering, Smart Home, and Automation company headquartered in Tbilisi, Georgia. I have also led several startup projects and did some graphic design freelancing work. In my middle and high school days, I competed in national mathematics Olympiad of Georgia and am a multiple-time finalist. I was also an IMO and IPhO nominee for the national team of Georgia. Though, I focused more on general education and have not dedicated a lot of time to math and physics. This has ultimately earned me a gold medal for academic excellence, which is granted to a handful of graduates in the country, but likely cost me international competition medals in math and physics.

Before all that, I was a die hard football (actual football) amateur player and fan.