Hi there, I’m Steven 👋

I’m a Software Engineering student at the University of Waterloo who really enjoys solving hard problems at the intersections of software, AI and robotics.

• Currently going all-in on robot foundation models, my notes should reflect this
• Shipping robotics projects on YouTube at least 1x a month
• I maintain a monthly blog where I post updates on what I’ve been up to!

Currently Building

• General-purpose robotics using Koch 1.1 robot arms!
• Cute tiny robots called Tinklets which I got inspired from the Stanford zooids project (on pause until I get back to school with Vince and Isaac)

Under the Hood: My Second Brain 🧠

I've been using Obsidian since September 2021 to take Conceptual Notes. In 2023, I decided to share ~80% of my 5000+ notes to the public.

Explore My Brain:

• You can use the search bar 🔍 to look for my thoughts on a particular topic (ex: “self-learning”)
• My Maps of Content (MOCs) are vague outlines of my world
• My school notes can be found Waterloo Software Engineering
• Outside of trying to be a technical person, I occasionally think about humanity, see My Worldviews for a taste, or my blog

A Note on My Notes

These notes are primarily written for myself as I am Learning. As a result, they are often incomplete and don’t make sense. My goal by sharing these notes is to showcase the topics that I am interested, display my knowledge (or lack thereof) in a subject, and encourage serendipitous encounters. If you think there is a topic that I NEED to learn, shoot me a message on Twitter.

Also, if you see a hyperlink that doesn’t work, it’s probably a private note (ex: 20 Years Old).

My notes are here for you to get another perspective on how to think about concepts in a way that has not been possible less than 3 years ago.

Speaking at BrebeufHx, a hackathon that I co-founded in high school.

In The Past

• For Jan-Apr 2025, I interned on the Tesla Dojo (supercomputer division) team writing high-performance C++ for hardware simulation. This is where I got into understanding AI training and inference
• I interned at NVIDIA for Fall 2023 on the Isaac ROS team developing hardware-accelerated robotics packages
• I interned at Ericsson doing 5G software development and applied reinforcement learning approaches for Antenna Calibration
• I interned at Siemens writing software to map buildings with robots for RTLS applications
• I was heavily involved in the UWaterloo Robotics Team building next-generation Mars rovers as well as the Waterloo Aviation Robotics Team building autonomous drones
• I founded of a nonprofit called Kurius that organizes free coding events for 4000+ Canadian high school students
• I obtained my Glider pilot license at age 15 (the summer that I fell in love with Aviation)