DPhil Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
University of Oxford · Starting October 2026
Computational approaches to cuneiform languages, supervised by Jacob Dahl.
Teaching machines to read the world's oldest writing.
>300,000 cuneiform texts bear witness to >3000 years of history, from the invention of the wheel to the Roman Empire. Few have been translated, so engaging with this corpus requires years of specialized training. I aim to make this rich material accessible to everyone.
Before academic life, I was a Bay Area startup founder.
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2024Now
MPhil Cuneiform Studies
University of Oxford
Allegedly the most intense training in Akkadian and Sumerian a person can get.
20242022
B.S. (Honors) Symbolic Systems
Stanford University · Concentration in AI
Getting an education is way more fun when you don't have to worry about whether it'll get you a job.
2022
Independent Contractor
Needed some time to sleep, travel, make market rate, and figure out what's next.
20222016
Co-Founder & CTO
Commercial real estate docs → structured data. Sole engineer for six years. Built the user-facing product, internal annotation platform, ML pipeline, yada yada.
20162014
Undergrad
Showed up to study CS. Spent more time on everything else. Left to start a company before that caught up with me.
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Born and Raised
in the North Georgia Mountains
Started coding at 14 and talked my way into working for startups before I could drive.
100CE
The last cuneiform text
Coincidentally, also in Uruk.
3400BCE
Writing is invented
In Uruk, the first proto-cuneiform texts are written.