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.