Welcome to my home page. I'm obsessed with solving problems. Locally, I care about doing things that bring more meaning to people's lives; globally, I care about expanding what humanity is capable of, giving current and future generations better tools to solve the problems they care about and pursue what's meaningful to them.
The throughline for me is freedom. People should do things because they choose to do them; people should not do things because choose not to do them. If people avoid doing things because they don't understand how to, or they think it's too difficult or even impossible, that is profoundly tragic. This type of freedom is important on both the global and local levels: building new technologies and capabilities for humankind that seem insurmountably challenging, and ensuring these technologies make their way into tools and products that people can actually use to improve their lives. Nowhere are these limitations more salient than the brain, and so I decided to focus my effort on building better technologies for interfacing with our brains.
On top of practical considerations, I also value knowledge for its own sake. There are arguments one could make about the unknown future applications of knowledge justifying its acquisition, but, personally, I simply find the story told about the universe through the truth and its pursuit to be a beautiful one.
My path through life is essentially like trying to find an integer \(x\) such that \(\alpha^x = \beta\) for cyclic group generator and element \(\alpha\) and \(\beta\), and recognizing that it can be rewritten as \(\alpha^j = \beta(\alpha^{-m})^i\) — I may not know exactly where I'm going, but I'm confident I can get there in time \(O(\sqrt{n})\). (Just a little group theory/cryptography humor, forgive me.)