Hi, I’m Stan! Welcome to my blog. I am a 52-year-old machine learning engineer living in San Francisco Bay Area, California and currently working at Google. I use this site to express my thoughts on a variety of subjects that I am interested in.

I have a Ph.D. in power electronics from Penn State (2004) and an M.S. in artificial intelligence from Tulane University (2007). I worked as an adjunct professor at Tulane, teaching classes in electrical engineering. After that, I spent a number of years as a professional poker player, using my analytical skills to make over $1,000,000 online. In 2017 I quit poker to start a career in machine learning.

I am also an International Chess Master. I have won over 60 high level (Grand Prix) tournaments while living in the U.S.

If you are interested in modern machine learning research, please check out my Deep Learning Reviews page, where about once a week I review a recent interesting research paper in deep neural network learning.