- Joined
- Jan 2026
- How they joined
- Directly
- Before Cognition
- Various Companiesadvisor
- Status
- Current
Details
LocationSan Francisco, California, United States
Company sitecognition.ai
UniversityCarnegie Mellon University
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Natural Language Processing (NLP)Applied Machine LearningConversational AIPython (Programming Language)Graphic DesignLogo DesignAugmented Reality (AR)Adobe CCcreative codingpainting and installation artmachine learning
Notes
- Said he had been 'working in the industry for a little over a year now as a Machine Learning Engineer at Atlassian'.
- In Golan Levin's CMU course 'Drawing with Machines' (2021 documentation), then-BFA sophomore Rick Zhang built a generative 'blob family' plotter drawing inspired by Salvador Dali's pocket watches, his visible early creative-coding work.2021
- Member of the CMU Statistics & Data Science Fall 2023 capstone team 'Identifying Evolution in the NBA' with Ryan Mulcahy, Otto Sharples and Stephen Zhong.2023
- Previous roles include advisor at Various Companies.
- CMU listing records the Fall 2023 36-315 statistical graphics capstone 'Identifying Evolution in the NBA', analyzing NBA game data from 2003-2022 on play style, rest/injury management and home-court advantage.2023
- LinkedIn skills center on RAG, NLP, conversational AI and applied ML alongside graphic/logo design and AR, matching an ML-engineering career grounded in an art background.
- Location is San Francisco, California, United States.
- Based in San Francisco, California.
Previous roleAtlassian
Experience
special projects at Cognition
Jan 2026 - Present
advisor at Various Companies
Jan 2025 - Jan 2026
advising eng & research at sequoia, founders fund, elad gil backed startups
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Statistics & Machine Learning
Minors in Computer Science, Fine Arts
Projects
VolunteeringCoach, Creative Coding Team, Pike Teams
AwardsCASPA 2018 Student Scholarship
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