thanks
People who helped me get here
I would not be where I am without some help…
Mentors
Intellecutal Collaborators
People with whom I’ve collaborated, exchanged ideas, or had deeply insightful conversations:
- Aadam Lokhandwala
- Akarsh Kumar
- Alex Lalejini
- Andrew Barto
- Antoine Cully
- Bryon Tjanaka
- Bryan Lim
- Charles Ofria
- Cooper Sigrist
- Dana Hughes
- Dominik Sobania
- Emily Dolson
- Franz Rothlauf
- Hannah Janmohammed
- Jordan Schneider
- Ken Stanley
- Li Ding
- Luca Grillotti
- Martin Briesch
- Matt Fontaine
- Maxence Faldor
- Paul Davis
- Phil Thomas
- Saeed Hedayatian
- Shripad Deskmukh
- Sumeet Batra
- Simon Stepputtis
- Tamar Rott Shaham
- Thomas Helmuth
- Varun Bhatt
- Yaswanth Chittepu
And many more…
Media
Media that i have regularly consumed, and that have shaped my views:
- Machine Learning Street Talk
- Waking Up with Sam Harris
- Huberman Lab Podcast
Books
Intelligence
- Gödel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter
- The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
- A Brief History of Intelligence - Max Bennett
- Kinds of Minds - Daniel Dennett
- Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
Spirituality
- Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion - Sam Harris
- On Having no Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious - Douglas Harding
- Mortality - Christopher Hitchens
- Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
Productivity
- Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals - Oliver Burkeman
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - Cal Newport
Financial Support
I would not be able to do research without the support of the following scholarships:
- Goldwater Scholarship
- John E. and Alice M. Flynn Scholarship
- National Science Foundation - REU (Summer 2023)
- CMU Robotics Institute Summer Scholars (Summer 2024)
Family and Friends
Of course, none of this would have been possible without the love and support of my family and friends.