About

Hi! I’m Ann. I’m mostly interested in multimodal generative ai, such as flow and diffusion models, for all modalities. In harmony with my passion for theory in the computer sciences and machine learning, it also draws on my passion for the visual arts, human perception, and also politics in a subtle way. Here’s an essay about it…

In the past, at Google DeepMind in London, as a research engineer, I worked on self improvement for llms, retrieval augmented generation for reasoning, and also lead a spirited reading group called sociotechnical agi safety, though some would say we were just causing mischief…

Before that, I taught computer science to high schoolers in Albania through the Code.X program. This was pretty transformative for me and I am so grateful that some of the people I taught and worked with are in my life today…

And before that, I worked on self supervised machine learning at Stanford with the Hazy Research Group…

And before that, I interned at Meta in New York City on the Locations prediction team as a infra engineer…

And before that, I grew up in Texas, did a lot of fashion photography and ran cross country on my high school team…