Public Engagements

Speaking engagements, hackathons, and other events.

RAG, Agents, and Latency – Webinar (with Jason Liu)

Talk

Talking about fast RAG and why most agent infra is slow by default

UC Davis AggieWorks – Career Talk

AggieWorksTalk

Will be yapping about career advice and stuff

Llama Hack @ Cerebral Valley 2025 – Judge

SHACK 15Hackathon

Llama 4!

AI Evals for Engineers & PMs – Guest Lecture

Maven CourseLecture

Teaching engineers how to evaluate AI in the context of reliability and infrastructure

Qdrant AI Builders Meetup – Talk

AWS GenAI LoftTalk

Gave a talk on Agents and Latency

TreeHacks 2025 – Judge

TreeHacksHackathon

Judged the other largest collegiate hackathon in the world

Stanford CS224G – Guest Lecture

Stanford CS224GLecture

Guest lectured at Stanford about evals with Ben Klieger

CalHacks 11.0 – Judge (Groq)

CalHacks 11.0Hackathon

Judged the largest collegiate hackathon in the world

AI Engineer World's Fair – Interview

AI Engineer World's FairInterview

Met cool people, got interviewed by Harper Carroll

UC Berkeley AI Hackathon 2024 – Judge

MLK Student CenterHackathon

Snuck into the hackathon, judged, and met Karpathy

RunPod Open-Source LLM Hackathon – Judge (Nous)

RunPod HackathonHackathon

Judged my first hackathon, met cool people