2007-2017, childhood

• - Born and raised in Las Vegas
  • - Parents immigrated there in 2002, for my dad's erosion research
  • - Cool place to grow up, planning to write something about how it affected me
• - Mostly eating dirt and watching PBS kids

2017–2022, puberty

• - Did a bit of comp math, played a lot of fortnite/valorant, learned societal norms

2022–2024, started doing stuff

• - Spent a summer at Penn M&TSI after sophomore year. I regard this as a turning point in my life.
  • - Met amazing, ambitious people from around the world and realized I could be among them
  • - Met a kid doing matsci stuff, which I thought was cooler than all the cs stuff everyone else was doing
• - Started doing materials research with Clemens Heske at UNLV and Miriam Rafailovich at Stony Brook
• - Won some science fairs and pitch comps, got really into tennis and climbing, joined mariachi and learned violin
• - Got into college had to pick between Stanford, Penn M&T, and a full-ride to Vanderbilt
  • - Picked Stanford, which I saw as a bet on myself. I'm trying to make sure I didn't bet wrong.

freshman year

• - Knew I wanted to do startups, but decided to stick with materials and energy and work on hard things
• - Met lots of awesome people, learned poker, many sidequests, got elected class president
• - Thought I wanted to spin out wet lab research, planned to major in materials

sophomore year

• - Spent fall at a fusion startup, but decided AI for materials is the most interesting thing for me to work on
• - Came back and started studying physics and focusing on ml research
• - Learning to work harder and stretch my brain in different ways
• - to be continued...