A brief history:
During Ph.D. training at Stanford, my interests centered around black holes. Then, while doing postdoctoral work at MIT and Duke, my research focus shifted to cracking the glass problem. Once again shifting my focus, I then had fun with the physics of machine learning as a Research Scientist at FAIR at Meta. I am currently at OpenAI, poking at the frontiers of artificial [redacted] intelligence.
{Prior to all that, I attended UCSB College of Creative Studies. [Meta-prior to that, I attended Keio Senior High School in Japan (speaking of which, in Japanese, my last name is spelled 八井田 and first name 翔).]}