Principal Research Engineer / Technical Lead
Perception / AI
MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Germany, Remote (Contract)
Engaged via CHI-FRO, a focused research organization collaborating with
MIT's Probabilistic Computing Group and the MIT Quest for Intelligence
• Led ChiSight, a 3D scene-perception moonshot: defined the research roadmap and
built the initiative's core systems
• Real-time probabilistic perception with differentiable rendering and
multi-resolution Gaussian scene representations,
SLAM agents, and inference controllers,
via GPU-accelerated sequential Monte Carlo in JAX/CUDA
Apr 2019 — Oct 2021
Postdoctoral Researcher
AI / Comp. Neurosci.
MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Cambridge MA, USA
Conducted research at the intersection of neuroscience and AI and introduced novel perspectives
on the hippocampal formation as a spatially organized memory system — including theories of map fragmentation,
surprisal-based remapping, and the representation of cognitive spaces
• Performed neural data analysis (TDA, low-dimensional embeddings)
Nov 2017 — Mar 2019
Research Scholar
AI / Comp. Neurosci.
Numenta — Redwood City CA, USA
Joined Numenta as a Research Scholar after a month-long research visit (Nov 2016)
• Investigated spatial representations in the brain and their role in general cognitive computations and intelligence
• Developed a formal framework for Numenta’s sequence memory from a compression-theoretic perspective.
Oct 2015 — Oct 2017
Postdoctoral Researcher
Mathematics
IST Austria | Institute of Science and Technology Austria — Klosterneuburg, Austria
Research focused on TDA, topological clustering, sparse coding, and variable-order Markov models at the intersection of mathematics and computer science
• Co-advised PhD students by providing research directions and technical guidance throughout project execution, resulting in two peer-reviewed publications.
