James Foster

AI Engineer & Cognitive Scientist

My PhD focused on representation learning and analogical reasoning in agents, or how minds and machines build abstractions. I work on AI agents for data analysis and reasoning, building them to be rigorous and interpretable, honest about what they know and how they know it.

Currently

• Senior Software Engineer at Google — in-house Data Analysis Agent, Key Drivers Analysis, and Antigravity integrations.
• Building Agent Concepts — shared cognitive vocabulary for AI agents and humans to create together: a structural-reasoning counterpart to Agent Skills.
• Cofounder of KidCampConnect — helping parents discover, plan, and coordinate summer camps and kids activities.