I grew up in northern Ontario, Canada, and spent my childhood reading Calvin and Hobbes, learning to program video games, and going for long walks with my dad while discussing life, the universe, and everything.
Today, I'm studying computer science at Stanford with support from the Masason Foundation. I'll be graduating in December.
Professionally, I focus mainly on robotics, but in the past I've worked on NLP, RL, and many other topics.
When I'm not at a computer, I'm probably playing the piano (and occasionally recording); hiking somewhere away from any recognizable trail; or reading about the physics and philosophy of consciousness, the arrow of time, or something like that.
Contact, etc.- Email: bfmatusch at gmail dot com
- My resume here
Experience
- 2024: working on home backup batteries at Base Power Company
- 2022–2023: working on intelligent sidewalk robots at HYPR
- 2021: Building realistic robot simulators at NVIDIA
- 2020: Working on NLP experiments at Midjourney
- 2019: Studying self-motivated exploration in RL at Vector Institute
- 2018: Sorting out background radiation from dark matter detectors at SNOLAB
- 2017: Making a homebrew self-driving go-kart
- The Order of Time
- Siddhartha
- Calvin and Hobbes
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- October Sky
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
Hiking spots
- St. Mark's Summit, Cypress Mountain, West Vancouver
- Marin Headlands, just north of SF
- Rattlesnake Point, outside Toronto (there are caves!)