Blog
How to analyze new-technology startups
May 2024
How to analyze startups that are creating foundational technology.
Opportunities in Robotics Foundation Models
April 2024
Robotics Foundation Models (RFMs) bring the foundation model paradigm to the physical world.
The Smart Traffic Signal Platform
October 2020
AI Traffic Management, and how it will enable next-gen ADAS and safer Self Driving.
Why Hard Tech
September 2020
Why I work on hard tech, and not social media or web apps.
Gradient Descent and Chain-Linked Systems (on Medium)
July 2020
On Broken Incentives and Deadlock.
Co-written with Blake Elias.
SWAP: Softmax Weighted Average Pooling (on Medium)
June 2020
Our method, softmax-weighted average pooling (SWAP), applies average-pooling, but re-weights the inputs by the softmax of each window.
Co-written with Blake Elias.
Do Transformers Understand Time?
March 2020
[Blog (pdf)] [Paper Draft (pdf)] [Poster]
Mentors: Hamid Palangi and Yonatan Bisk
CityHome Project, MIT Media Lab
September 2013 – December 2013
Omnipresent in home computing interface. Primary interface to CityHome project.
RouteFun, MIT-VW-IDEO Hackathon
January 2014
Analyzed OBD-II and GPS data from many drivers to rank routes by level of ‘fun.’
PriceMyVet
Summer 2013 – January 2014
Bringing the “name your own price” model to vet services.
Kommonly
November 2013 – June 2014
Matching event organizers with local brands and business for sponsorship.
GetMe, HackMIT
October 2013
Pay your friends and community members to buy your groceries! Payments through Venmo.
Test#Code, MIT 6.470 Web Dev Competition
January 2013
A programming study and evaluation tool, for students and professors.
SoFi – Social Finance
Fall 2011 – Spring 2012
Discuss, learn, and share your progress as you trade stocks using this social meets brokerage online platform.
CloudCar – In-car computing platform
Fall 2010 - Spring 2011
A platform to unleash the data locked inside our cars to application developers, and improve in-car technologies.
Racing Simulator Cockpit – Gran Turismo 5
Winter 2011
The HMI for the real driving simulator.
RR2P150 Transfer Line, Fermilab
Summer 2010
Developed a new transfer line to enable Femilab’s Main Injector take on a new era of research.
Whole Home Multimedia Distribution Platform
Spring 2009 – Spring 2010
Watch all your home entertainment (including live and recorded TV!) using a computer as a set top box.
In Home VOIP
Summer 2009
Project to convert our home phones into an IP system with the Asterisk PBX.
m0n0wall Gateway
Winter 2008
A high performance, enterprise grade, open source gateway for the home.
Whole Home Network
Spring 2008 – Fall 2008
A wired network to enable convenient and fast use of our computers across the house.
Anamorphic (21:9) Home Theater
2008
Home Theater with true cinema aspect ratio.