I grew up in Belgium reading sci-fi and programming computers in VB6. During my undergrad I worked on ML — I interned at Spellbrush in 2019 where we trained one of the first commercial image models, and for my master’s thesis I spent a year working on RL to solve NetHack (unsuccessfully, still unbeaten to this day).
In 2021 Brian Gu, Ivan Chub, and I started a computational research lab called 0xPARC. At 0xP, I spun out Lattice, an effort to accelerate our vision of autonomous worlds. Lattice worked with Fenris Creations (the creator of Eve Online) on a new MMO. In my last year at 0xPARC I incubated projects combining advanced cryptography with deep system engineering — we accelerated homomorphic encryption and zero-knowledge proofs for very large computation (e.g., LLMs) ~100x by applying techniques from the world of ML systems engineering.
The worlds I was hoping to participate in as a teenager are being materialized. This fills me with determination, and also with many new inquiries.
I live in San Francisco.
Email: [first name]@[last name].io