Thinking About Computers

A conversation with Ale Escontrela. Ale is a 3rd year PhD student at UC Berkeley working on robotics and reinforcement learning.

A conversation with Samyu Yagati. Samyu is a PhD student in the Berkeley Sky Lab studying systems and security. She is also an excellent fingernail artist.

Samyu's socials:

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~samyu/

A conversation with Ajay Rayasam. Ajay is a venture capitalist working at Osage University Partners.

Ajay's socials:

twitter: https://twitter.com/ajayoup

Tianjun Zhang is a 6th year PhD student at UC Berkeley working on RL, LLMs, and other buzzwords related to ML hype. He also has six guinea pigs and laughs every 45 seconds.

A conversation with Sam Arch. Sam is a 2nd year PhD student at Carnegie Mellon working at the intersection of databases and programming languages.

Sam's socials:

website: https://samarch.xyz/

twitter: https://twitter.com/SamArchDB

Jean-Luc is a 6th year PhD student at Berkeley working at the intersection of security and embedded systems, and in particular, in bringing usable cryptographic systems to constrained platforms. He was also on the bargaining team for the nation-wide UAW academic workers strike.

Jean-Luc's socials:

website: https://jeanluc.io/

github: https://github.com/jlwatson

Ameesh is a PhD student at Berkeley working at the intersection of machine learning and formal methods, with particular focus on applications in cyber-physical systems, robotics, and program synthesis.

Ameesh's socials:

website: https://ameesh-shah.github.io/

twitter: https://twitter.com/ameeshsh

github: https://github.com/ameesh-shah

A conversation with Shadaj Laddad. Shadaj is a computer science PhD student in the Berkeley Sky Computing Lab studying programming languages for distributed computation.

Shadaj on Twitter: https://twitter.com/shadajl