About me

My name is Cameron Pfiffer.

I work at Letta. We build infrastructure for self-improving AI systems.

I am a recovering financial economist.

See my blog. Find me on Bluesky.

Values

I value:

• Personal integrity

• Clarity

• Kindness

• Simplicity

• Curiousity

• Partnership

• Curiousity

• Partnership

Background

I'm an engineer, AI person, statistician, economist, and hammock enthusiast. I like writing code for supercomputers. I love code, rowing, and pianos. Learning is my favorite thing.

I'm a big lover of the Julia programming language. I've worked on the Turing.jl project for Bayesian inference.

I was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford's GSB. I worked on industrial organization with Shoshana Vasserman. I received my PhD in finance from the University of Oregon. I have a master's in finance from the ICMA Centre at the Henley Business School (which itself is part of the University of Reading), and a BSc in Technical Theater from Southern Oregon University. I was a developer for Turing.jl, a probabilistic programming tool.

I used to be an alpaca rancher and work for Cirque du Soleil. I'm really fun at parties, and I am a fantastic dancer.

What's on this site

• You can find my blog posts here.

• I have some links to things I like here.

• You can find my CV here.

What I like

I tend to focus on computational topics in lots of domains, though generally I am an economist. I am currently interested in:

• Generative AI and NLP

• AI systems

• ATProtocol

• Neural network architectures

• Type systems and compilers

• Industrial organization

• Asset pricing

• Bayesian statistics

Favorite programming languages:

• Julia because it's fast and fun to write!

• Rust because someone told me I should learn C and I thought this was cooler.

• R because I am a masochist.

• Mathematica because I forget how to take derivatives.