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.