Building AI systems
that understand humans

I work at the intersection of human data and machine intelligence. Currently shaping AI development at Meta Superintelligence.

Michael Paglia

My Journey

A timeline of where I've been and where I'm heading

Jul 2025 - Present

Human Data for Superintelligence

TBD Lab, Meta Superintelligence

Strategic projects in human data collection and posttraining pipelines for next-gen AI.

Nov 2024 - Jul 2025

AI Agents

Meta

Led agentic AI workstreams with FAIR. Contributed to open-source agent research.

May 2024 - Nov 2024

GenAI Data Lead

Meta

Data labeling improvements and vendor partnerships. Advanced to team lead.

Mar 2025 - Present

Epigenetics & Bioinformatics

Ramos Bossardi Lab, Albany Medical College

Multiomics data analysis studying epigenetic modifications and endothelial dysfunction.

Mar 2025 - Present

Founder, 518 Cares

Nonprofit Organization

Community support and social impact initiatives in the Capital Region. 518cares.org

2023 - 2024

NSF Research Fellowship

Data Management and Mining Lab

Built PySpady, an open-source library for spatiotemporal tensor decomposition on large-scale datasets.

May 2023 - Aug 2023

Software Engineering Intern

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Built internal tooling and secure access management systems serving 4K+ employees using Python, Flask, and Dremio Data Lake.

2021 - 2024

Computer Science

University at Albany

B.S. in Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude.

2016 - 2021

Founder, MP Mercantile

Self-funded through college

Scaled sneaker reselling to $100K+ ARR by 16. Built custom bots and scripts.

About Me

A bit more about who I am beyond the work

I started building bots to automate sneaker reselling at 16—scaling that to six figures taught me more about systems thinking than any textbook. That scrappiness led me to computer science, then to Meta, where I now shape how AI learns from humans.

Today I lead human data strategy for Meta's superintelligence efforts. My grandmother's diagnosis with a rare gallbladder cancer also pushed me toward exploring AI in medicine—a frontier I'm actively working to enter.

I also founded 518 Cares, a nonprofit serving the Capital Region—because building things that matter isn't limited to code.

Questions I'm exploring

  • Beyond chatbots: how does AI actually integrate into the fabric of daily human life?
  • How do we capture the tacit knowledge of domain experts—the intuition, not just the answers—to train AI that thinks like a specialist?
  • Can AI accelerate the path from genomic insight to treatment for rare cancers?

What I work with

Daily
Python SQL pandas PyTorch
For Speed
Rust Go C
For Scale
Spark Airflow AWS
For AI
HuggingFace LangChain vLLM
For Bio
R Bioconductor scanpy

My Work

Listed alphabetically, not by importance

518 Cares

Nonprofit organization focused on community support and social impact initiatives in the Capital Region of New York.

Nonprofit Community

AI Evaluation Consulting

Building executable eval rubrics from real expert workflows and process-linked reward models for RLHF training data. Client: [redacted]

Latest Consulting AI

Aster Grok Trader

Autonomous 24/7 cryptocurrency trading bot operating on the Aster DEX, powered by Grok API and running on a Linux server in Amsterdam.

Latest Personal Trading AI

Kobe

iOS personal trainer using computer vision to detect jump shot form and provide real-time voice feedback for improvement suggestions.

Latest Personal iOS Computer Vision

Montana AI

College football AI data layer serving as a coaching assistant to professionals, designed to eliminate the need for traditional data analysts.

Latest Research AI Sports Analytics

Polymarket Trading Bot

Dual-strategy system for prediction markets: Python sentiment analysis for directional trades + Rust HFT engine for arbitrage.

Latest Personal Trading

Premier League Match Prediction

Bayesian optimization techniques applied to Premier League teams and players to analyze and predict hypothetical match scenarios.

Latest Personal ML

PySpady

Sparse dictionary encoding Python library developed as an extension of several machine learning research papers.

Latest Research Python

Let's Connect

I'm always open to new opportunities and conversations

Schedule

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Location

NY