Hi, I'm John. I'm a Staff Software Engineer at Meta, where I'm leading development of the spatial computing platform that powers current and future XR devices. In my time at Meta, public projects I've worked on include: Orion AR glasses, Meta Neural Band, Meta AI glasses, Quest 3 Augments, React Native for Reality Labs devices, and Meta Spatial SDK.

Prior to Meta, I worked at Amazon to optimize global supply chains throughout COVID-19 disruptions, and at the agriculture data startup Gro Intelligence to combat food insecurity. As a student, I interned at NASA's Atmospheric Science Data Center, developing tools for researchers to monitor and understand climate change. In each of these roles, I applied data science and machine learning to remote sensing and econometric data to optimize decision-making.

My research interests include: spatial computing, scene understanding, and AI, especially with regard to human-computer interaction. I have a particular interest in optimization problems and how decision-making is evaluated and automated, as in autonomous robotics and agentic systems.

I hold a master's degree in data science from Harvard University as well as a bachelor's degree in computer science from New York University.