About

Hi and welcome! I'm Owen. I train ML models for visual domains — object detection, generative models, digital humans. I've spent time at Stanford CS, Cruise (point-cloud models), and Meta Reality Labs (Codec Avatars). These days I'm at Roblox, building ML to evaluate avatar quality.

I originally studied CS because I was curious about the information-philosophical roots of consciousness and intelligence. How do people think, work, play, reflect, and do everything we do in our minds? That question still drives most of what I find interesting, and a lot of what I write about here: fundamental patterns and connections that I see between people, the world, and the systems around us.

Outside of work: San Mateo, married, cat dad, experimental home cook, housing & urbanism policy, renewables and electrification.