currently i i'm on a team called sandbox at alphabet uh which is a it's an independent unit at alphabet which is the parent company of google on on my team there are physicists and engineers that are working sort of at the intersection of or say scientists lots of scientists and engineers working at the intersection of physics and ai and on that team i'm there but what's amazing is that i actually have the freedom to pursue my own mathematical interests and my own academic research program so in that sense it's very much like a traditional math postdoc you know you go to a university and you come in with a research statement you're like you know here's the things i did in graduate school and i have so many other things to explore bam bam bam here's how i'm gonna do it um so what's amazing is that i have the freedom to do that there but while surrounded by exceptionally amazing people uh you know also uh from from academia some physicists but then also great engineers um all working on on you know building cool technologies and so i think that that's a really cool place to be because i still have all of my collaborators you know from the math world and you know we meet on zoom or however one does these days uh but then you know i i log off my math uh you know calls and then i'm you know join the team meeting and then there's all these awesome people outside of the world of mathematics and i think that that's really vibrant and exciting i have to be honest i feel like i'm one of those people where when i hear especially from companies descriptions of blending ai with blank i often get really skeptical you know say we're gonna we're working on the frontiers of quantum computation and artificial intelligence and usually in the background i'm like ah that sounds like some some real bs right there just finding the right buzzwords and from the outside looking in if i hear you know these descriptions we're taking tools from quantum physics and we're applying them to language models i'd be like ah are those related but then i looked at your thesis and that was actually one of the most clarifying moments where i said oh oh i get it this is actually a highly approachable way to see why it's the math that underlies some of this quantum physics that helps you do some useful things there and i actually do think the math of quantum physics is like really elegant in a way that feels strange to confine just to the realm of physics if you were to give i don't know just a little bit of a defense to a skeptic who outside looking in here's these descriptions if we're going to take this pile of scientists and we're going to like throw them at ai because both of those sound like cool things um and you need to say like no here's why it's actually useful here's why this is a coherent way to approach the problem uh and i know you have an answer because your thesis at the very least contains one what what would you say to them well so i i'm going to imagine that the this question from this hypothetical person uh is addressed to let's
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