The hard part
isn't capability.
It's adoption.

I work at the point where emerging technical capability becomes operational reality. Research, enterprise systems, open source, teaching, and now AI — the recurring pattern is the same: identify, build, help adapt.

Publishing the AI attribution framework as a practical open standard.

AI Attribution

Teaching courses in data science, data and software engineering, with substantial GenAI integration, at Boston University.

Exploring where institutional capacity meets agentic systems.

Operating the AI-Native Stack

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Privacy Is an Architecture Problem

The single-assistant fantasy breaks down as soon as AI touches real work. Different tasks have different trust boundaries, which means privacy has to be expressed in the architecture, not buried in settings.

Inside the AI Control Plane

The useful shift in agentic work is not one smarter agent. It is role separation: one layer scopes and governs the work, another executes against a contract, and a reviewer decides whether the result stands.

Selected work

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AI Attribution Framework

A four-level taxonomy for describing how AI was involved in a piece of work — built for journalism, academia, and professional practice, and positioned as an open standard.

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Computational Journalism Innovation

Methodology and program design at the intersection of journalism, computation, and institutional practice — including TRACE, open tools, and curricular experimentation.

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GenAI Educational Integration

Systematic protocols for integrating generative AI across data science coursework — balancing productivity with educational integrity and professional responsibility.

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Follow a thread

Trails are author-curated paths through the body of work — linking essays, older projects, and material that wouldn't surface in a feed. Start anywhere and follow the connections.

Distributed Work

A trail on ambient presence, consulting infrastructure, and the things remote work tooling keeps getting wrong — and what that reveals about what presence actually requires.