Hello there!
March 19th, 2024
This is my first blog post, and my about page.
A few facts about me #
Learning RL as a preliminary to neuromechanics researchResearching RL controllers for musculoskeletal movement models at Northeastern's Neuromechanics of Movement Lab under Professor Seungmoon Song.- I recently started an applied math startup/lab called Sapientia Research with Yoyo Yuan! Our first project is a fully homomorphically encrypted platform for neuroscientific data analysis.
- I've traveled to over 30 countries (my favorites so far are Greece, Croatia, Vietnam, and Thailand)
- I'm a fan of roguelike and roguelite videogames (my favorite games: Owlboy, Hades, Dead Cells, the Final Fantasy series, the Persona series, the Yakuza series, and Wildermyth)
- My favorite game engine is Godot
- My favorite authors are Brandon Sanderson and Leigh Bardugo
- I'm a worldbuilder in my free time
- I mostly listen to J-rock, shoegaze, and K-pop
- I'm a licensed scuba diver
- I speak English and French, and am currently learning Japanese, Korean, Latin, Greek, Thai, Mandarin, Vietnamese, and Italian
- I like urban planning (in particular, I've worked with genetic algorithms and efficient path planning)
- My favorite field of math is topology
- My favorite anime in no particular order are sakurasou no pet na kanojo, kill la kill, bunny girl senpai, mushoku tensei, sousou no frieren, konosuba, no game no life, 5 centimeters per second, cyberpunk edgerunners, horimiya, and evangelion
- I'm a national RoboCup winner and international finalist
- My favorite historical eras are the Tokugawa Shogunate, the French Revolution, the Roman Republic, the Carolingian Empire, the Ming Dynasty, the Napoleonic Era, the Inca Empire, and the Renaissance
- My favorite philosopher is Slavoj Žižek
- I've been playing the piano for over a dozen years
- My favorite programming language is Nim
- My favorite code editor is Helix, but I mainly use VS Code for convenience
- I love cooking and baking because of my mom, who is a Cordon Bleu-trained pastry chef
- I'm an effective accelerationist
- I'm a visual novel enthusiast
- I'm a cybersecurity hobbyist, training to become a red teamer for my university
- I grow cherry blossom bonsai in my dorm
- Piracy is morally correct
- My favorite clothing brand is Superdry
- My favorite youtube channels are gigguk, fireship, suckerpinch (tom7), brackeys, low level learning, louis rossman, ryan trahan, sebastian lague, citynerd, good work, theanimeman, kai lentit, oxford mathematics, pan piano, animenz, rememberthebeat, sphaerophoria, tim ferriss, tom scott, trevor wallace, and wesley wang
- I'm currently designing my own domain-specific programming language for linguistic analysis, which comes with integrated phonology tools, a morphological analysis engine, a syntax tree generator, semantic analysis features, corpus management, multiscript support, tts and automatic speech recognition, lexical database integration, statistical + ML tools, pragmatics and discourse modules, an extensible plugin architecure, and VS code extension support.