Jonathan Gu

Economist & Machine Learning Engineer

Building with AI agents on OpenClaw

Currently running 5 autonomous AI agents 24/7 on a Mac Mini. They ship code, trade options, analyze biotech, and learn from their mistakes.

PhD Economics, UCLA · BA Statistics & Economics, UC Berkeley

Philosophy

我們能做的，就是將自己的事做到最好，其它，交給命運吧。

All we can do is do our own work to the best of our ability. The rest, leave to fate. — 顧鳴高

Projects

OpenClawBrain neural memory graph visualization

Canonical product home: openclawbrain.ai

🧠 OpenClawBrain — OpenClaw-Native Memory + Routing

OpenClawBrain plugs directly into OpenClaw for ongoing agent use. It starts with local BGE-large retrieval so agents become useful immediately, then keeps training in the background on ongoing and historical traces.

Core loop: scanner/harvester labels + async Ollama qwen3.5:35b teacher + Ultimate Policy Gradient updates -> learned runtime route_fn.

→ Canonical product home · Jon's overview · UPG derivation · Blog · GitHub

OpenClaw BGE-large Ultimate Policy Gradient route_fn

🦅 GUCLAW — Autonomous AI Operator

A high-trust AI agent running 24/7 on a headless Mac Mini via OpenClaw. Manages code deployments, monitors systems, triages emails, and coordinates two sub-agents through Telegram.

→ Runs three agents across two products with shared learning

OpenClaw AI Agents Automation Learning Harness

🌱 Bountiful Garden — Neighborhood Produce Sharing

A web app for neighbors to share homegrown produce. Built with React 19, Express, Postgres, and Cloudflare, with an AI agent managing coding, testing, and deployment workflows.

→ Live at bountiful.garden · AI-assisted development

OpenClaw Full-Stack React TypeScript

🦅 Project Pelican — Autonomous Options Trading

ML-driven options trading system using GBM + TFT ensemble models for credit spread selection. Handles ingestion, feature engineering, training, calibration, and autonomous execution in one pipeline.

→ Live dashboard · End-to-end autonomous options pipeline

OpenClaw Quantitative Finance ML Pipeline AWS

🐦‍⬛ CormorantAI — Biotech Intelligence Operator

An always-on AI analyst built on OpenClaw for a biotech-focused asset manager. Ingests feeds, triages trial events, tracks FDA catalysts, and writes pre-market briefings.

→ 20+ automated crons · Real-time intelligence pipeline

OpenClaw Biotech AI Analyst Real-Time Data

Experience

Instacart — Marketplace Optimization

San Francisco

Machine Learning Engineer

Built item-availability models serving real-time predictions across millions of SKUs.
Shipped growth experiments and forecasting systems for systems that move billions in annual GMV.

Education

PhD Economics — UCLA, 2014–2020 · Corrected RL Updates (2016) [LaTeX] · Explained & Applied in OpenClawBrain
BA Statistics & Economics — UC Berkeley, 2007–2011

Contact

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