Hey! I'm an easily-nerdsniped student who loves watching anime and going on spontaneous adventures.
I work on open source zero knowledge cryptography right now. In the past, I did work in lots of fields like multi-tissue aging research, equivariant
molecular neural networks, NLP, and healthcare. I've also worked on open education for MIT and Harvard, and give my money away as grants for cool open source work.
Here are the best ones. Check them out!
New pseudonymous nullifier scheme for ECDSA, via a ZK-SNARK proof of a new signing scheme. Cryptographically proved security in Master's thesis. Implementation here.
Coded, branded, marketed the add-on for real time LaTeX mathematical expression rendering. Over 30M users. 4.5+ star rating. More info at autolatex.com. Worked with team to bring to Google Slides.
Run a group house with my friends Raffi and Marley in Cambridge, MA. Stay with us for free or eat dinner at our Sunday demo nights!
Give bounties on Github for people who build one of my software ideas that don't exist yet that people would actually use. 11 grants given so far.
Spew out unsolicited thoughts on cryptography, identity, and purpose at my blog.
Wrote a sci-fi short story about a world with localized time "freezes" in VR. Read it here. Will give grants to attempted implementations of this in VR.
Created prototype application to publish anonymous messages on behalf of a group on-chain. Construction 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.
Helped spawn a cult at dweb camp with the Black Swan Project. An ethnographer wrote about us.
Built first cheap, anonymous second-price auctions on chain at EthBogota with a team from Jesse's hacker house.
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.
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.
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.