I'm working on a computational project with Prof. Michael Levin at the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University and remote research at AION Biosciences.

In the past, I have explored circular economy approaches to developing climate technologies that are both cost-effective and sustainable in the long-term. I wrote a proposal to upcycle food waste to make a battery membrane, and I got to build out my first prototype at the de Lannoy lab at McMaster University.

Since then, I've fallen in love with a number of niches, including: self-driving labs for materials discovery, bio-based carbon capture and utilization, biomanufacturing, physiologically relevant models in biology, brains-on-a-chip, transfer learning in bio-inspired robotics, weird unicellulars, among many others!

I write on my personal Substack and Medium.

• We don't know what true early cancer even looks like, we've actually never observed this. The theory is that our body kills early cancer all the time but we have no in vivo or in vitro way of confirming this…even our theories rely on studies with mature cancer cell lines
  • This is part of a broader problem re measurement tools in biology…I believe better measurement & models unlock huge multipliers to progress
• Human brains evolved to think in linear cause-effect ways (energy-efficient in survival situations), which definitely affects how we approach science. What does a brain that thinks in nonlinear cause-effect ways look like, where does it even begin?
• What are the limits to what we can "grow" as opposed to manual assembly? What happens when we run out of materials we cannot grow? 100% recycling? Space mining?
• From an energetics POV, what are the limits of using cells vs. inorganic (or "dead") matter as the substrate for a robot? What is the tradeoff between programmed/intelligent behavior and energy costs of keeping things alive?
  • There is a recent shift from working with passive to more active physical substrates…how much can we exploit this, what are the limits?
• The reversal of apoptosis (programmed cell death) is called anastasis - could anastasis but for senescence (aging) be possible?
• The concept of trypsinizing cells via passaging is pretty crazy. Imagine you just met your neighbour two days ago, then some psychologist announces they want to study your friendship and induces a hurricane that tears everything apart and now you have a new neighbour.
• The problem of transfer learning in ML, and how toddlers are amazing at this. What's so special about them, is it an energy efficiency problem? What about innate biological biases we're born with?
• What unique conditions would it take to recreate a modern-day Bell Labs? Period of technological stagnation? Unique historical conditions…