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The Next Episode (pa-dada-dada)
I (finally) graduated from the University of Michigan this weekend and I’ll be starting as a physics PhD student at Harvard University in the fall. Starting off studying computer science (2010), dropping out to work in big tech on low-prevalence high-severity harms (2013), pivoting to accelerate genomics research during COVID (2021), and then returning to…
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2021 Year in Books
2021 was another eventful year to put it mildly. We turned a corner in the pandemic response with widespread vaccine availability in the developed world, but suffered the human cost of disinformation in the form of vaccine hesitancy. Meanwhile, much of the world still doesn’t have vaccine access that they desperately need. We’ve entered an…
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Reflecting on my time at facebook
This week marks the end of my tenure at facebook. This is the only company I’ve ever worked for (outside of internships) so I’m feeling a rollercoaster of emotions right now. To begin with, I’ll start with a really quick recap of my time at the company. My condensed FB story Feb ’14: Joined as…