research

things I am working on or have recently been thinking about.

Point-track representations for manipulation

Oxford VGG, 2025-present

Replacing an RMA-style depth and pose stack with CoTracker-driven 2D/3D point-track encoders for environment embeddings in manipulation policies.

Preference optimization experiments

Unaligned, 2025

Small-scale DPO and LoRA experiments on TinyLlama variants, with training scripts, preference metrics, eval diagnostics, and inference utilities.

VendingBench and autonomous agents

OpenAI, 2025

Prototype evaluation workflows around autonomous-agent behavior, real-time perception, chain-of-reasoning, and hardware control.

Digital policy and startup regulation

Google Policy Fellowship / Engine Advocacy, 2024

Research on data privacy, antitrust, AI, digital assets, telecoms, intermediary liability, and cross-border digital trade barriers.