Building AI systems that understand humans

I work at the intersection of human data and machine intelligence. Currently building human-AI collaboration at Fleet AI.

Michael Paglia

My Journey

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

Feb 2026 - Present

Member of Technical Staff

Fleet Artificial Intelligence

Human-AI collaboration at scale. Building training gyms for agents—high-fidelity simulations where AI practices tasks and humans provide supervision.

Jul 2025 - Feb 2026

Human Data for Superintelligence

TBD Lab, Meta Superintelligence

Shaped how frontier models learn from human feedback. Designed data collection strategies and posttraining pipelines in Meta's skunkworks for superintelligence.

Nov 2024 - Jul 2025

AI Agents

GenAI @ Meta

Data strategy for FAIR's agent research. Scaled evaluation pipelines and training environments for agentic AI systems.

May 2024 - Nov 2024

Data

GenAI @ Meta

Scaled code generation and AI safety data pipelines. Managed vendor relationships. Promoted to team lead within 6 months.

Mar 2025 - Feb 2026

Visiting Researcher

Bossardi Ramos Lab, Albany Medical College

Studying how blood vessels remember injury at the molecular level. Building computational pipelines for multi-omics data to uncover epigenetic mechanisms in endothelial dysfunction.

Sep 2016 - Jan 2026

Founder

Stealth

Built automated systems for e-commerce arbitrage. Scaled to six figures by 16, funding my way through college. A decade of internet hustle.

Mar 2025 - Jan 2026

Founder

518 Cares

Started a nonprofit that served 50K+ people across New York's Capital Region. Paused operations after relocating. 518cares.org

Aug 2020 - May 2024

B.S. Computer Science

University at Albany, SUNY

Summa Cum Laude. NSF research fellow, built open-source ML tools, and somehow still found time to run a business on the side.

Jan 2024 - May 2024

Research Fellow

Data Management and Mining Lab

NSF Grant #1831547. Developed PySpady, an open-source Python library implementing sparse dictionary encoding for spatiotemporal tensor decomposition. Applied to geospatial and time-series datasets at scale.

May 2023 - Aug 2023

Software Engineer

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Built internal tools and access management systems used by 4K+ employees. Python, Flask, and enterprise data infrastructure.

Background

Most people find systems thinking in a classroom. I found it at 16, building bots to automate sneaker reselling and scaling that to six figures before college. That scrappiness led me to computer science, then to Meta, and now to Fleet.

At Fleet AI, I'm building training gyms for AI agents—high-fidelity simulations where AI learns to use real software and humans provide the supervision. The bet: drop-in virtual assistants that let anyone direct thousands of agents in parallel, accelerating the shift from performing work to directing it.

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?
  • How can AI bridge the gap between genomic research and treatments 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 vLLM
For Bio
R Bioconductor scanpy

My Work

Listed alphabetically, not by importance

Albany Capital Region skyline

518 Cares

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

Nonprofit Community
Reinforcement learning visualization

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
Autonomous crypto trading bots

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 Bryant practicing at Staples Center

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
Joe Montana in the locker room

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 billboard in Times Square NYC

Polymarket Trading Bot

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

Latest Personal Trading
Mo Salah with Premier League trophy

Premier League Match Prediction

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

Latest Personal ML
Temporal Graph Signal Decomposition

PySpady

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

Latest Research Python

I'm always building the next thing.

If you're working on something at the frontier of AI and human collaboration, I'd like to hear about it. The best conversations start with a simple message.

Based in New York