The road less traveled passes through some strange country, beautiful and inexplicable. My road has wound through high school records, college failures, start-up manias, experiments in isolation, snails (so many snails), college resurrections, tips-of-the-tongue, CIA sponsored nobilities, Ph.D. meanderings, motherhood(s?), and one rather astonishing bend in the road. Today, I'm the founder and CEO of Augniscient Inc., where we make people smarter, and a visiting scholar at the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley, where we think deep thoughts about deep thinking.

You know that ah ha! moment? That moment when frustration and befuddlement change to crystal clear understanding? I sell that.

Augniscient develops technologies that make people fundamentally smarter, whether it's mastering mathematics or surveying smart-phones. Our systems give your brain the map to any destination.

Neural/cognitive systems employ representational codes derived from the multidimensional statistics of both exogenous and endogenous signals. Not surprisingly, our intuitions about the forms of these representations typically fail to capture their actual complexity. By working with information theoretic models of auditory computation I seek to analyze the role of more complex codes in human information processing.

As a visiting scholar at the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, I use the mathematical tools of machine learning to understand the human brain and study the capabilities of neural systems to design better artificial intelligence. My focus has been on speech processing, audio search and attention modeling.