Some projects
Large-scale Endeavors
/ Orbit
cofounder, 18yo
built neurotech in an abandoned shipping yard.
- built out new method of neuro-stim (ie. 'writing' to the brain, instead of 'reading' from it)
- showed some VCs what it could do. raised $10mil seed at $45mil off our tech breakthroughs
- built a team around the mission of saving the world. built technology I'm proud of.
/ Gamut
founder, 17yo
rallied the gang, and had a blast building cool ML tech with my friends.
- founded at 17yo. acquired a few months later.
- 12 patents created on our tech during the acquisition process
- our answer to: "what should we do with the summer before college?"
/ Deep Protein Models
17yo, @ Mantra Bio
went full research-mode, and got state-of-the-art in the protein-function prediction problem ("given a protein, what does it actually do in the body?"). came up with a wacky new way to featurize proteins (w. graph-neural nets and persistent homology) that powered our ML models. (I learned way later that the medicine-candidate designed w. our system beat out 100s designed by actual biologists to get chosen for in vivo trials :)
/ Condution
cofounder, 14yo
open-source task management app with 4 million+ downloads.
- 9th-grade quarantine project w. the gang
- spent my days programming on discord screenshares instead of paying attention to zoom english class
- we chose the most boring project idea ever, but had soo much fun. led to the default friend-group activity being "build stuff together" :)
/ Math funzies
nerd
chosen to lead the US team in the COMAP International Mathematical Modeling Challenge. #1 USA
- i'm normally not a fan of competitions, but decided to tryhard this one in an attempt to impress a girl.
- it didn't go very well.. but at least we won nationals! 🙃
- also a huge math nerd — grew up on linear and abstract, now a big fan of most things algebra-flavored(highlights so far include galois theory, cohomology, spectral graph theory, a tad bit of random matrix theory, info theory. suck at NT and real analysis though..)
Some other random stuff
small huxley builds: got handed a drill press and a chopsaw at 7yo. from 8-10yo, built 40amp levitating electromagnets using electrodynamic suspension, super-corroding alloys to rapidly produce fuel for hydrogen-powered cars, windmills that were dirt cheap to produce by using tensegrity structures, and a bunch of random other stuff.
- somehow lost zero fingers. (lowkey no idea why my parents were ok just leaving me alone w. power tools 🤷)
COVID surge early-warning models @ Mass General: so we could move resources in advance to hospitals that were about to get hit the hardest.
w. @zach
ANTIDOTE: Artificial Neural network TrojanIning DetectiOn using TDA Estimators (we tried realll hard on the acronym, dont @ me). SOTA on detecting poisoned NNs by looking at the topological properties of a graph grown out of neural correlations.
taproot: a shared zettlekesten and note knowledge-base between a bunch of friends. connect to each other's thoughts like links on wikipedia. vulcan mind-meld our second-brains! 30K+ shared nodes, got to present at JMM
langdist: solves the language equivalency problem by creating a similarity metric on languages. done primarily through average tree-edit-distance on syntactic structure
2 days
sneaky models: built a model that can encode hidden messages in its output, and then decode and reason over these hidden messages from an entirely separate instance
kotae: our pass at a digital whiteboard. infinite canvas, latex w. desmos-style inputs, lets you define / evaluate / operate on symbols, automagically simplifies / expands / solves equations.
and a bunch of random other stuff. hopefully to be added soon :)