Hi! You found R²!
Hey, I’m Russell.
I build production-grade ML and agentic systems for NLP, retrieval, and forecasting in healthcare, pharma, e-commerce, aerospace, and beyond.
I’m a PhD student at UC Berkeley in the Department of Bioengineering, advised by Dr. Reza Abbasi-Asl and funded by the NSF GRFP.
Current work:
- Evidence-guided clinical trial design: Measuring whether trials adopt published recommendations for broadening patient eligibility across 500K+ trials. 19K+ assessments across 658 recommendations and 4,400+ trials.
- AI platform @ FenixCommerce: One engineer + AI agents built and shipped 4 production systems in 14 days — $8M+ in measurable business impact for ~$500 in compute. 450+ experiments, 30K models, 118K+ lines of code.
- Agentic workflow manager: Multi-agent orchestration framework powering both industry and PhD research. Coordinates parallel workstreams, manages task dependencies, and accumulates institutional knowledge across 95+ indexed learnings.
Past work:
- Adversarial robustness of medical LLMs: Testing how medical AI models fail under challenging clinical scenarios. (arXiv)
- High-throughput screening system for cardiovascular drug phenotyping @ Novartis. (article)
- End-to-end test engineering for internet satellite systems @ Amazon.
- Thermal testing system for hemostatic diagnostic devices @ Werfen. Discovered overheating flaw affecting blood sample integrity.
- MitoGAN: Synthetic image generation for mitochondrial dynamics research.
- Computational experiments for identifying CAR-T protein candidates.
- ScanAlert: Electronic medication monitor for improving medical adherence.
Honors:
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP).
- Intel ISEF Finalist (2017): Represented Nevada at the international science fair.
- Jacobs School Scholar: Full-ride scholarship (~10 recipients/year).
- Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society.