Curriculum Vitae

Education

2018 — 2022
B.S. Mechanical Engineering at UIUC
Dropped out.

Experience

2022 — Now
Founder, CEO at ShapeCI
Accelerating how the world designs hardware. Backed by Bloomberg Beta, Neo, and industry legends.
2021 — 2021
Deep Learning Intern at DeepMap (NVIDIA)
Semantic map automation for self-driving cars. DeepMap was acquired by NVIDIA during my internship. Improving AI model training and inference infrastructure and some model architecture work.
2021 — 2021
Advanced Manufacturing Intern at Tesla
Scaling production of 4680 cells in Kato pilot factory. Applied AI (computer vision) & mechanical design.
2020 — 2020
ML Research Intern at 3M
Worked in 3M corporate research labs doing AI research (computer vision).

Miscellaneous

2023 - Now
Angel Investor
Very sparingly write seed checks (MOIC ~3.7x)
2022 — 2022
Fellow at 8VC
Very early profile of me here.
2022 — 2022
Fellow at Ripple Ventures
Very early (kind of) profile of me here.
2017 — 2021
Various Research
SLAM and AI (computer vision) at UIUC, IoT virtualization at UIUC, robot perception & motion planning at UPenn
Just look at my LinkedIn. Go home.