est. · huntsville, al
I'm Manav, nice to meet you! I like to train models and understand how they work. I got my start in engineering at 15 when I worked on the Nasa Artemis II Rocket. I found it incredibly rewarding, (especially when it launched 5 years later) and i've been hooked ever since. currently, i am particularly interested in recursive self-improvement, especially in robotics, biological, or kernel engineering applications.
Outside of work, I really enjoy espresso and cooking. my favorite coffee shop is Tide Coffee Roasters in Seoul, and my favorite restaurant is my-oh-my shawarma in berkeley.
Designed an agent harness that generates and updates politically-neutral, encyclopedic articles by cross-referencing media, correcting for source-level bias, and re-verifying articles as new information emerges. Sourced trending topics via FAISS-based clustering and dedup from a daily stream of 5K+ grok.com conversations.
Distilled gradient-boosted decision trees into a DNN to predict player stats, achieving 73% accuracy on over/under.
Designed a social app for discovering and sharing scenic viewpoints with friends through a QR code-based friend system, featuring personalized recommendations and interactive maps with real-time geolocation tagging.
Created a secure paper-trading platform using Flask with real-time stock market data integration, enabling users to practice trading without financial risk through a scalable NoSQL database system.
Developed a Web3-powered platform for college students to securely buy, sell, and trade textbooks via NFT-based campus verification, IPFS storage, and trustless stablecoin escrow smart contracts on Polygon.
Developed a complete recreation of the classic tower defense game with custom graphics, game mechanics, and interactive gameplay elements.
Built a bigram language model using PyTorch that impersonates Yoda's speech patterns.
Developed an algorithm that identifies people based on analysis of their Short-Tandem-Repeats (STRs), implementing DNA profiling principles used in forensic analysis.
Developed a text readability analyzer implementing the Coleman-Liau index to automatically determine U.S. grade-level comprehension from written content.
readings
interests
super novice
I love sunday league!
just got back from korea and japan!!