My interests revolve around thermodynamic computing, open-endedness, and artificial intelligence. I want to create open-ended systems that persistently produce interesting, useful things, including intelligence. I currently believe that harnessing the natural tendency of matter to self-organize and evolve under thermodynamic influences is the best path to creating such systems.
My background is primarily in mathematics, especially combinatorics, with a side of physics, philosophy, and machine learning. I worked for a number of years on the enumerative combinatorics of chord diagrams, with applications to quantum field theory and bioinformatics.