Professional Projects

• I posted recordings of my lectures from DSCI 512 (Algorithms and Data Structures), taught for the Master of Data Science at UBC in October-November 2019.
• I posted recordings of my lectures from CPSC 340 (Machine Learning and Data Mining), taught at UBC in the January 2018 session.
• I oversee and contribute to the UBC MDS blog.
• I created a course on linear classifiers for DataCamp. To learners: before signing up for my course, please read this article in order to make an informed decision.
• I wrote Rhomboid, a set of Python scripts used to deliver courses via GitHub. There is also a demo video.
• I was one of the developers of Spearmint, a package for optimizing expensive functions using Bayesian optimization.
• I wrote some blog posts for the (now disbanded) Harvard Intelligent Probabilistic Systems group’s blog. My favourite is the post on Compressing Genomes, although the equations no longer render properly.
• I wrote Embryo Development Geometry Explorer (EDGE), an image processing software package for developmental biology.

Personal Projects

• Joel Fox and I created two puzzle games: Line of Sight and Herding Hero. My favourite puzzle games are The Witness and Portal 2 (especially the co-op mode).
• I wrote The Magnum Opiate: a story of mystery, and intriguing.
• This time lapse video from 2011 demonstrates a new shaving technique that I developed. Photography and editing by Oren Rippel.
• I participated in a Chinese speech competition as part of Princeton in Beijing in 2009.
• I co-created Youth Canada, a database of enrichment opportunities and articles for Canadian high school students.