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CMU – Meta Spinal Cord Injury Research Collaboration
One of the areas I supported during my time at Meta’s Neural Interfaces team was academic collaborations. These sorts of collaborations presented novel challenges to find ways to package and distribute software and data to our academic partners that would be portable and easy to build-off of, but also protected data privacy and company IP.…
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Bicycle of Theseus
I originally bough my bicycle custom from Mission Bicycle in San Francisco (now defunct 😢). It was spec’ed mostly as a commuter bicycle; I upgraded to a 8-speed Shimano Alfine Internal-gear hub (SF Hills 😅) and the reflective paint on the wheels (SF Drivers 😨) The bike was my daily commute to work and weekend…
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A generic noninvasive neuromotor interfacefor human-computer interaction
In February 2024 The CTRL org operating inside Meta Reality Labs posted a paper providing a broad overview of much of the research the org’s done for the past years. My role on this org was broadly to develop Software and Infrastructure for real-time data collection, prompted EMG studies, model training, and analysis. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.23.581779v1.full.pdf
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Basement Media Center
A wood-working project to build a media center for our basement
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EMG Hands in VR (Facebook Connect 7)
Facebook Connect was today, and offered a glimpse at one of the projects I’ve contributed to this year. Most of this work remains confidential, but you can see one shot of EMG neural interface devices embedded in VR alongside CV tracked hands (staring my hand 😛, at 19:56) highlighted during Mark’s intro. This segments showed…
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CTRL-Labs Acquisition
In November 2019 the startup I was working at, CTRL-Labs, was aquired by Facebook, to be integrated into their AR/VR Research Labs. News Coverage [The Verge] Facebook acquires neural interface startup CTRL-Labs for its mind-reading wristband [Tech Crunch] Facebook buys startup building neural monitoring armband [Bloomberg] Facebook to Buy Startup for Controlling Computers With Your…
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EL Dia de los Muertos Skull
Another EL (Electroluminescent Wire) project, this time a Dia de los Muertos style skull, done with the EL wire passing into cut-out gaps for the eyes and nose to create an empty-spaces effect
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Observability At Scale
Observability at Scale: Building Uber’s Alerting Ecosystem November 20, 2018 Uber’s Observability team built a robust, scalable metrics and alerting pipeline to detect, mitigate, and notify engineers of issues as they occur. Checkout the link above for a great Engineering Blog post written by my former colleague, Shreyas Srivatsan, covering a lot of the systems…
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Cat Card Deck
In October 2018 I worked on creating a custom card-deck as a present for my girlfriend, based on the idea of photo-shopping our cat Olivia into the face-cards. The whole project took about 2 months of off-and-on work to complete. The editing was done using GIMP. The printing was done with www.makeplayingcards.com/
