I am a mathematician and programmer, working in some intersection or another or these two fields. Presently, I'm an OpenAI Fellow; previously, I've worked on quantum compilation at Rigetti Computing and on homotopy theory in academia, especially the connections between algebraic topology and algebraic geometry known as "chromatic homotopy theory". In addition to "traditional" research, I am very interested in communication within scientific circles. In particular, I spent a lot of time as an academic coaxing my topologist peers to speak the language of number theory.

My brief tour in academia consisted of a Benjamin Peirce fellowship in the Harvard math department, graduate work at Berkeley under Constantin Teleman, and undergraduate studies in computer science at Urbana-Champaign under Matt Ando and Elsa Gunter.

You might also be interested in my wife's website, ThisIsSam. Also, this URL used to host a group research blog, Chromotopy.