Research Affiliate, MIT CSAIL 
I'm currently a software engineer at Google, working in the Search Quality group in Mountain View, CA. For the 2006-07 and 2007-08 academic years, I worked as a post-doc with Prof. Leslie Kaelbling at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
I do research in artificial intelligence (AI). My long-term goal is to understand how anything made of unintelligent parts could possibly be as smart as a human being (or even a lab rat). More specifically, I work on probabilistic inference and machine learning. My dissertation research was on a probabilistic modeling language called Bayesian Logic, or BLOG. A prototype version of the BLOG Inference Engine is available.
I got my Ph.D. in Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley in December 2006. My undergraduate work was in Symbolic Systems at Stanford, and between college and grad school I spent a year working as a software engineer in the research group at Google. My wife, Emily, is looking for a job and has her resume online. She has a Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard and is looking for positions in the San Francisco Bay Area.