Oak Ridge, TN

Quantum many-body simulation of strongly-correlated electron systems. I work on DCA++, an open-source dynamical cluster approximation code built to run on leadership-class supercomputers, improving the methods and performance behind large-scale simulations of correlated materials.

Nashville, TN

Experimental research in quantum materials. I use chemical vapor deposition to grow zinc-oxide nanowires under tight morphology and quality constraints, working toward studies of polariton-mediated thermal transport.

Explored Airbnb's next generation of products. I ran deep research into emerging markets and technologies, then turned the most promising directions into business plans and working prototypes of entirely new experiences.

Conceived and launched Airbnb's connected smart-lock platform — the company's first hardware integration — and owned it end to end, from concept through launch and growth. That spanned the concept brief and experience prototype, the business case and revenue model, a new technology platform with partnerships across three leading smart-lock brands, host and guest product design, and the go-to-market: product marketing, the launch event, and pitches to tech and travel media.

San Francisco Bay Area

Airbnb search isn't a typical search product: when a guest is choosing where to spend hundreds of dollars and days of their life, the stakes for getting it right are high. I spent three years on how to help people discover the loft in Cape Town, the ryokan in Tokyo, or the cabin in Fjordgård that makes a trip magical — growing annual revenue through improved search relevance, redesigning the experience to prioritize nearby travel, and building the product for the Frontline Stays initiative that helped COVID first responders find free housing. I also managed a small team of PMs across new-user search and Airbnb Experiences.

Led a team of PMs building the experiences that connect over a billion people to businesses on Facebook every day — spanning auction and delivery, market dynamics, ad quality, ranking, and machine learning.

Menlo Park, CA

Worked to make ads a genuinely good experience on Facebook — using machine learning to predict people's interests at scale, and building sentiment-measurement systems to gauge how ads affected the way people experienced the product.

Austin, TX

Led a cross-functional team building the policies, ad-review operations, automation, and advertiser tools needed to launch Instagram's global self-serve ads business.

Austin, TX

Analyzed the bad experiences people have on Facebook to predict and prevent them, and wrote Python and PHP tooling to automate operations and scale content review and workforce planning.