This site is the place to find me if you’re looking, and occasionally a place for me to sound off on work, my life and travels, and my obsession with weird old movies.

  • My curriculum vitae.
    • As of June 2025, I work on frontier model safety as part of the Superintelligence Team at Microsoft AI‘s Vancouver office.
    • Previously, I was at Salesforce and Tableau, where I worked on multiple projects as an AI Architect and tech lead.
    • Before I joined big tech, I was lucky enough to work at Pocket Pixels on the popular iOS photography apps Color Splash and Juxtaposer. I also worked on the Machine Learning parts of news recommender app Zite, which was acquired by Flipboard in 2014.
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  • My PhD thesis, code, and other publications. The subject of my PhD work is Bayesian optimization, with an emphasis on practical AI applications (computer vision, machine-aided animation tools, robotics, etc). I had the incredible fortune of having Nando de Freitas as my thesis supervisor.
  • For the past few years I’ve been making something or other to sum up each year of my life and sometimes putting it online. Here’s what I did for 2023, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2011
  • I <3 movies. Partly because people sometimes ask, but mostly because I’m a huge dork who wants the world to love what I love as much as I do, I maintain a list of my favourite movies that you maybe haven’t seen.
  • My wife and I love to travel, mostly in Asia and Australia. In November-December 2024 I took a month-long trip to Nepal, which was an incredible experience, in spite of the COVID and altitude sickness. I saw a yeti scalp and everything!

Email: eric@haikufactory.com
Instagram: @misterwindupbird
Letterboxd: mrwindupbird

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RECENTLY (January 2026)

“When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be future as well.”

— William Gibson, Neuromancer

  • Game: Moonring (Mac)
  • Comic: A Moore, J M Williams III, et al; Promethea
  • Non-Fiction:—
  • Fiction: T Ligotti, Songs of a Dead Dreamer
  • Podcast: Shelved by Genre
  • TV: Pluribus, season one
  • Music: Witch Bolt
  • Restaurant: Kissa Tanto, 263 E Pender St,
  • Drinks: Cascade Room, 2616 Main St
  • Coffee: AM Cafe, 2528 Guelph St
  • Last Great Movie: One Battle After Another (d P T Anderson, 2025)
  • Last Good Movie: Wake Up, Dead Man (d R Johnson, 2025)