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.
- Current Tesla intern on the Dojo team (supercomputer division) for Jan-Apr 2025
- Shipping robotics projects on YouTube at least 1x a month
- I interned at NVIDIA for Fall 2023 the Isaac ROS team
- 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
- Autonomous racing with the Code19 team, planning and controls! (Vehicle Dynamics)
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
- 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)