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:
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
I sometimes write in my blog. Occasionally, I also take some classes at MIT.
At MIT, I lived on putz, the second floor of the west parallel of the East Campus dormitory. There I was surrounded by hackers, makers, artists, scientists and many other awesome people who defy categorization. Over the years, they've been largely responsible for my outlook on life (and my sanity).
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
- dynamics of traffic jams and control strategies for traffic smoothing [paper]
- 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
- Trends and Discovery at Twitter
I sometimes write in my blog. Occasionally, I also take some classes at MIT.
At MIT, I lived on putz, the second floor of the west parallel of the East Campus dormitory. There I was surrounded by hackers, makers, artists, scientists and many other awesome people who defy categorization. Over the years, they've been largely responsible for my outlook on life (and my sanity).