Latest blog posts:
Childhood's end, posted August 19, 2024
"Hey mister," puzzles, and social media apps, posted August 08, 2024
Night train to Budapest, posted July 07, 2024
I graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in spring 2024 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, a Bachelor of Arts in Plan II Honors, a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, and a minor in History.
I spent much of my time at UT as an undergraduate researcher in the Quantum Circuits Group, led by professor Shyam Shankar of the ECE department at UT. The research group "builds superconducting and semiconducting quantum devices and circuits for applications in quantum information science and engineering," and this work is at the intersection of nanofabrication, superconductivity, and microwave engineering, among other fields.
In spring 2023, I went on exchange to ETH Zürich in Switzerland. There, I worked on a research project within the Hybrid Quantum Systems Group, led by professor Yiwen Chu. I also took several graduate courses through the Master in Quantum Engineering program.
Here are some of the research projects on which I've worked (I'll get around to updating this soon).
And here's a detailed list of courses I took at UT Austin and ETH Zürich and some of my thoughts on them. I also wrote specifically about studying quantum engineering and (introductory) German at ETH Zürich .
In summer 2022, I worked at Intel in The Numerical Hardware Group, an applied research group within Intel Graphics that focuses on computer arithmetic and mathematical hardware. Somewhere within this long blog post I briefly talk about what I did. In summer 2021, I worked at Cisco in the Advanced Security Initiatives Group. In summer 2020, all of academic year 2020-2021, and summer 2017, I worked at Digital Defense as a Technology Team Intern.
In the summer after 11th grade (summer 2019), I started a blog so I could practice writing. I wrote a few posts about esoteric things like making a super PAC and exploring the Texas Administrative Code. I rebooted the blog in summer 2022 after rebuilding the blog engine using Django. Later that year, I hiked the Grand Canyon rim-to-rim and wrote about my experiences.
Here's a link to the blog homepage with the rest of my posts. The most recent posts are also linked at the top of this page.I also enjoy collecting and reading books, especially textbooks, nonfiction, and science fiction. Here's a partial list of books I've read and my thoughts on some of them.
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