âšī¸ About Me
Hello, I'm Sonny George. I am actively seeking engineering/research opportunities. I hold an MS in Computational Linguistics from Brandeis University and a BS in Statistics from BYU. Although these days, my interests primarily lie in deep learning and embodied AI, I am a generally passionate full-stack engineer (Python, JS, C++, etc.) that simply loves building maintainable software systems that solve real-world problems.
đ Publications
Benchmarking Arbitrary Natural Language Tasks in 3D Open Worlds
Sonny George, Chris Sypherd, Rocco Ahching, and Dylan Cashman
Proceedings of the 6th Annual Embodied Artificial Intelligence Workshop at CVPR 2025 (Oral Spotlight)
Probing the Capacity of Language Model Agents to Operationalize Disparate Experiential Context Despite Distraction
Sonny George, Chris Sypherd, and Dylan Cashman
Findings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2024)
Incorporating Token Usage into Prompting Strategy Evaluation
Chris Sypherd, Sergei Petrov, Sonny George, and Vaishak Belle
ArXiv Preprint, May 2025
đ Blog Posts
September 8, 2025: What is my engineering style?January 10, 2025: What is the proper level of I/O abstraction in world models (that generate simulated rollouts)?
đŖī¸ Presentations
sr-OLTHAD+SemanticSteve: Toward Any-Horizon Open-Ended Autonomy
May 2025
đ§ Projects
SemanticSteve - A semantic wrapper (skill library) for controlling Minecraft 'Steve' (MCP server coming soon!)Papiamentu ASR Corpus - 22.4 hours of Papiamentu utterances for automatic speech recognition (ASR)
TextQuests - A game of fun & easy things to do over text message!
đ¤ For-Fun (Humble) Hardware Projects
Routine Butler
BC+PPO Learning for Object Picking
Vision-Based Line-Follower W/ Lidar Obstacle Avoidance
đī¸ Hobbies
Beyond research and engineering, I love to play instruments, travel, hike, camp, and (on occasion) cook. I have been known to write and release music as Brother Barnaby on streaming platforms.