Hey there! I'm Stan and I am a masters student in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. I work on information diffusion in networks with Prof. Devavrat Shah at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT and Bano Banerjee at Twitter. Previously, I studied mathematics, electrical engineering and computer science as an undergraduate at MIT.  

The two focal points of my work at the moment are:

• Understanding and building intelligent, adaptive complex systems.
  
• Developing systems to aid creative discovery in mathematics, science, engineering and art.
  

I got my first taste of programming at Stuyvesant High School when I was 14 trying to wrap my head around recursion in Scheme and making turtles move around in NetLogo. 

I was hooked. 

Since then, I've worked on 

• building a 3D graphics and animation system from scratch
• making news actionable for the greater good
• AI for autonomous mobile robots (like this one or this one)
• cortical machine learning algorithms
• simulating the statistical mechanics and self-organization of biological systems
• machine learning and vision algorithms to help study how embryos develop over time
• detecting the onset of signals in the presence of noise
• investigating how people learn unfamiliar tasks through feedback
• Twitter's #Discover tab backend.

and various other side/class/research projects.

I sometimes write in my blog. Occasionally, I also take some classes at MIT.  

At MIT, I lived on the second floor of the west parallel of the East Campus dormitory.  Second West, also known as putz, is a close community of hackers, builders and other creative types.

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