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I am a Principal Research Engineer at Microsoft in the Office of the CTO . My current work is building AI systems by augmenting generative models with cognitive architectures. We explore what we can do with LLMs to unlock their utility to a larger range of applications, and spend our time building functional prototypes and sharing our learnings across Microsoft, academia, and the wider industry.
Our work has been making its way into products like Semantic Kernel , Microsoft Teams, and Bing, and is used by research teams around the world.
For me, this continues a life-long interest in autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, first in specializations in college (an emphasis on robotics and control with my BSME , and an emphasis on AI with my MSCS ) and later through numerous startups.