Talks
Talks, workshops, panels, and interviews.
Selected Talks
2026
Brown AI Winter School 2026: Reinforcement Learning for Orbital Transfers
A 2.5-hour workshop on training PPO policies for orbital transfers and checking their trajectories and fuel use against a Hohmann baseline.
AI Winter School 2026, Center for the Fundamental Physics of the Universe at Brown University.
Workshop notes and materials
2025
Brown AI Winter School 2025: Exploring LLMs and RAG
A 2.5-hour workshop on using LLMs and retrieval-augmented generation with physics papers.
We queried LUX papers and Brown theses using a hosted model and a Llama model running in Colab, then inspected the retrieved passages.
AI Winter School 2025, Center for the Fundamental Physics of the Universe at Brown University.
2021
Using Deep Learning to Detect Abusive Sequences of Member Activity on LinkedIn
A production model for detecting profile scrapers from request sequences and timing.
Scale Exchange.
2020
Preventing Abuse Using Unsupervised Learning
Using Isolation Forest to detect automated account activity at LinkedIn.
Spark+AI Summit 2020.
2019
Fighting Abuse @Scale: Preventing Abuse Using Unsupervised Learning
Using Isolation Forest to find unusual account behavior without labeled training examples.
@Scale Conference.
github.com/linkedin/isolation-forest ·
Original @Scale page
Panels
2024
SXSW 2024 Panel with DARPA: Real or Not - Defending Authenticity in a Digital World
A panel with DARPA on detecting synthetic media and assessing the authenticity of online content.
SXSW and DARPA.
DARPA recap
Podcasts & Interviews
2022
The Data Scientist Show #035: Detect Online Abuse with AI
A conversation about online abuse detection and my move from physics research to machine learning engineering.