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This page contains some interesting projects I've worked on.

• Simulating Turing machines (source code) Wrote a domain-specific language for simulating Turing machines step-by-step, and used it to design a universal Turing machine. Intended to deepen my understanding of automata theory.

• Quasar jet visualization (source code) Worked with a prof in the physics department at UCLA to build a simulator for helical jets emitted from black holes. The goal was to determine the parameters of a particular quasar known as NRAO-530, by matching the simulated results to radio astronomy data. A technical write-up of one phenomenon predicted by the simulator is available here, and is a good sample of my technical writing.

• Generative ML for 3D objects I built a GAN in Pytorch that learned 3D shapes from 2D training data. In order to do this, I had to implement StyleGAN-2 and build a differentiable raycaster. More details about the raycaster are in the readme at the link.