Hey! I'm an easily-nerdsniped student who loves reading old philosophy tomes and eating undercooked tapas. I have over 10M users on software from my high school days.
I've done research in lots of fields like multi-tissue aging research, equivariant molecular neural networks in chemistry, NLP, zero knowledge, and healthcare.
I gibber on about my work. Gave talk on
verifiably deterministic signatures on ECDSA at
Stanford Science of Blockchain Conference '22 (left),
EthBogota '22, and ZKSummit 8 Berlin '22.
Previously gave talks on ZK airdrops at Devconnect '22 and
drones at IEEE IROS '17. Gave
technical deep dive of Alphafold 2 to MIT Undergrad AI Group (below).
Co-created MIT's AIM Labs, an applied machine learning project club. Led an iteration of Hack Lodge and mentored/attended many times. Co-ran a reflective cabin retreat and co-wrote a guide to run your own. Co-organizing a project-based group house for Jan 2023. Run microgrants program, where I give away my best ideas.
Here are the best ones. Check them out!
First anonymous, unique identifier for ECDSA, via a ZK-SNARK proof without a secret key. Cryptographically proved EUF-CMA, secrecy, and uniqueness of scheme on secp256k1. Thesis here. Implementation here.
Coded, branded, marketed the add-on for real time LaTeX mathematical expression rendering. Over 10M weekly users. 4.5+ star rating. More info at autolatex.com.
Wrote a sci-fi short story about a world with a practical analog of time travel. Read it here. Will give grants to attempted implementations of this in VR.
Run microgrants program where I give small grants to create one of my software ideas that don't exist yet that people would actually use. 3 grants given so far.
Spew out unsolicited thoughts on cryptography, identity, and purpose at my blog.
Built first cheap, anonymous second-price auctions on chain at EthBogota with a team from Jesse's hacker house.
Created prototype application to publish anonymous messages on behalf of a group on-chain. Construction (with code) explained as a Socratic dialogue here.
Co-created the first videochat pokersite without signups or downloads. Over 10K+ weeky active players. Recruited team to continue building project.
Brainstormed some initial ideas for a better research journal. Scribbled some thoughts here.
Wrote novel algorithm to analyze biological age via RNA gene expression levels of multiple body tissues. Paper here.
Presented work at IEEE IROS 2017 . Used partially observable Markov decision processes to pilot a custom-built drone. Collaborated with Daniel Bessonov and Patrick Li. Read paper here.
Helped spawn a cult at dweb camp with the Black Swan Project. An ethnographer wrote about us.
Selected for USA Computing Olympiad camp, as top 30 students in algorithmic programming in nation out of 3000+ students. Prepared for international IOI olympiad.
Came up with idea for trendy iOS App. Over 50,000 users. Surpassed Candy Crush on App Store Free Games chart. Joint work with Daniel Bessonov and Patrick Li. Almost got sued.
Run a hobby barbershop out of dorm bathroom. Pay what you want strategy, and many satisfied friends. Parody website at mitfades.com.
Cohosted radio show with Ritaank Tiwari out of MIT basement. Chatted and played music on alternate sundays at midnight. See our past setlists on chillvibesradio.com.