I'm David. Technical founder and research engineer. I founded Aeve, a frontier foundry that builds breakthrough AI systems. I'm currently exploring memory systems at Momo. At Cornell, my thesis introduced search-augmented reinforcement learning for legal reasoning.

Building
Aeve
A frontier foundry for breakthrough systems. Research, engineering, design, and product brought together to build AI infrastructure that creates real-world impact.
aevelabs.co
Momo
Research on memory systems for long-horizon retrieval, with an emphasis on provenance, entity resolution, retrieval stability, and reliable data-management guarantees.
usemomo.com
Research
Interpretable Search-Augmented Reinforcement Learning for Legal Reasoning
MS Thesis, Cornell University. Advisor: Claire Cardie. A framework integrating legal database access during RL training episodes. 10.5pp improvement on LegalBench through tool-assisted training with GRPO.
Publication · Code · Website
PPRL (Privacy Preserving Record Linkage)
Privacy-preserving health data infrastructure. Research on ground-level data tokenization for health information exchange across health systems.
miola.org
AI Clinical Decision Support Tool
Protocol-grounded AI clinical decision support for frontline maternal care, validated against National Standing Orders.
miola care