Tell us a little about yourself. You can include your personal background, family, outside interests that are important to who you are as a person and a candidate.
I’m a seasoned Town Meeting member (multiple terms, including a stint on the Appropriation Committee) who is not afraid to dive into the fine print and play devil’s advocate when needed. By day, I’m an entrepreneur and engineer, founding AnalytiqHub.com and DocRouter.AI—AI tools that wrangle messy documents into order, much like I’d tidy up a warrant article.
Trained as a mathematician with a PhD from MIT, I kept publishing post-academia while diving into AI for language models, self-driving cars, robotics, Wall Street trading tech, networks, and embedded systems. A keen (sometimes obsessive) watcher of politics at all levels, I balance it with family time and pondering life’s big equations. Ready to bring that analytical look to another term!
Why are you running for Town Meeting?
I’m running to keep serving as a vigilant voice in Town Meeting and to scrutinize Lexington’s nitty-gritty: budgets, schools, conservation, and housing.
Over years of involvement, I’ve championed more affordable housing, top-notch services without the sticker shock, quality school programs, and preserving our historic gems. I’ve also paid special attention to overpriced capital projects.
My view: government should empower folks, deliver bang-for-buck services, and foster a vibrant, inclusive community where diverse families can thrive, from all socio-economic backgrounds.
How has your past experience — whether in your professional life, elected office, or as a community leader — prepared you for a role in Town Meeting?
From Bucharest to MIT’s hallowed halls, my life’s been a global math problem—full of variables and unexpected solutions. Growing up in Eastern Europe, I aced math olympiads, jetting worldwide to glimpse diverse societies (and dodge Iron Curtain lockdown). I served in the military for my mandatory service, dove into the 1989 revolution, and led student strikes against the authoritarian post-communist regime—honing my knack for speaking truth to power.
Stateside, I blitzed a PhD in math from MIT in three and a half years, leaving six months early only to realize many years later I should have used the extra time for entrepreneurship or engineering. As a self-taught software architect, I’ve pivoted across AI, robotics, and finance; now, I helm AnalytiqHub.com and DocRouter.AI.
This mosaic equips me for Town Meeting: years on the floor and in Appropriation Committee sharpened my scrutiny of budgets, housing, and governance. I’m the contrarian with context—ensuring Lexington runs efficiently, inclusively, and (hopefully) more affordably.
Unless I have an opposing view, I don’t really need to speak up, if what needed to be said has already been said.
I focus on the issue, do my own research, am respectful, keep a beginner mindset, and do not assume other peoples motive.
What is the most important issue in this election to you personally, and what ideas do you have about how to address this issue?
I keep multiple logs on the fire, there isn’t a single most important issue–and some of the things I care about were explained above.