Hello!

I'm Mark, an AI engineer, researcher, and systems builder. As a research engineer, I combine social sciences with AI tools, AI agents, and large-scale algorithms to study social media platforms and computationally redesign them to promote healthier discourse. In parallel, I work at the intersection of AI research and methodology, developing and evaluating large language models as tools for computational social science. Outside academia, I consult with teams across industries, helping startups, researchers, and organizations turn AI ideas into working systems. I believe the future of AI isn't about replacing human judgment, but about amplifying us through human-AI workflows that allow us to use the best of both worlds to solve real-world problems.

Recent posts

Brief thoughts on outsourced labor

7 minute read

I saw a Twitter post about someone explaining how they found out “this one weird trick” in entrepreneurship, where they discovered they could hire Filipinos ...

Date: 2024-05-17

Experimenting with DSPy, Pt. I

less than 1 minute read

Experimenting with DSPy, Pt. I As part of me learning more about LLMs, I’m working through different use cases, tools, and examples that I find online. Right...

Date: 2024-05-16

Experimenting with LlamaIndex, Pt. I

34 minute read

Experimenting with LlamaIndex, Pt. I As part of me learning more about LLMs, I’m working through different use cases, tools, and examples that I find online....

Date: 2024-05-16

LLMOps self-education, Pt. III

less than 1 minute read

Session III: Creating a more robust RAQA system using LlamaIndex I’m working on improving my RAG-building skills. As a part of that, I’m taking courses onlin...

Date: 2024-05-15

Riffs about higher education

15 minute read

Riffs about the value of higher education I’m lucky enough to have gone to college at a Ivy League school on a full scholarship. It definitely changed my lif...

Date: 2024-05-15

LLMOps self-education, Pt. II

32 minute read

Session II: Questioning Barbie and Oppenheimer Through the Use of Agents I’m working on improving my RAG-building skills. As a part of that, I’m taking cours...

Date: 2024-05-14

LLMOps self-education, Pt. I

11 minute read

Session I: Course Intro | Building Your First RAG App with LangChain, Chainlit, and Hugging Face I’m working on improving my RAG-building skills. As a part o...

Date: 2024-05-14

Working with Bluesky as a researcher

3 minute read

I’m currently doing research at Northwestern, studying how people engage with political content online on social media, especially how they relate to algorit...

Date: 2023-11-28