The mys­tery of intel­li­gence cap­ti­vates me; it is one of the old­est puz­zles with no well-proven approach. My long-term goal is to cre­ate explain­able sys­tems that pos­sess human-like intel­li­gence. In this effort, I hope to con­nect math­e­mat­ics, com­pu­ta­tion, and physics, such as apply­ing AI to accel­er­ate phys­i­cal dis­cov­ery, while using sci­en­tif­ic data to train sys­tems with more struc­tured and explain­able reasoning.