About
I want to change the world by a measurable amount, and I have found that the way to do that is to keep trying things I don't know how to do yet. Most of what I make sits where software meets the physical world: models that have to run on a chip with a fixed budget, machines that have to hold a person up, and glasses that have to know where the walls are.
Right now that means two things. At Santa Clara University's Wireless Intelligent Networks Lab I research how far a machine-learning model can be pushed onto an FPGA before quantization and the clock budget break it, and I do the same for channel estimation on live radio samples. With Boris Nezlobin I co-founded Vantage, a pair of AR glasses and the spatial operating system inside them, where the prototype already runs as a Linux-based OS with optical gesture recognition and LiDAR room mapping while the hardware is in design.
Before that I spent a summer at Rainier Labs, a robotics startup, helping build robot dogs and an expressive robot head, and with a student team I co-developed BALANCE, a hybrid wheeled and legged mobility device that we filed as a provisional patent and published in the Youth Innovation Journal.
I explore widely on purpose. I build at hackathons most months, usually voice-first applied AI, and I keep the prototypes running afterward so strangers can use them and tell me what breaks. I study applied mathematics at UC Berkeley, which underlies every one of these projects.
If you are working on something that changes how people live with machines, I would like to hear about it.
