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tina mai

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    the most important problem i want to solve in my lifetime is to overcome premature death from luck. i think of this as an engineering problem.
    i'm building an industrial research lab creating hardware and physiological ML systems to give people plot armor.
    (more on this soon!)

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    CS & BME @

          (on indefinite leave)

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    sometimes i write essays. other times i think about writing them and mourn that i don't have much time to write anymore.

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    founding team @

     

    , building the operating system for biodefense. we develop frontier AI systems that identify biological threats and design medical countermeasures in real time.

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    research @ the

     

    , turning biology into a programmable discipline

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    co-founder/CTO @

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    featured in

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    backed by Cal Henderson (Slack), Matt Higgins (Shark Tank), etc.

    started @ 17, stepped back after 2y to work on the most important problems i want to see solved.

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    helped friends craft interfaces for

          and other beautiful manifestations of novel research

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    published in the

     

    @ 16, youngest recipient of the Atlanta Review International Poetry Award, + some other awards for writing

    (english is my third language so writing was my first way of proving i can get really good at something)

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    spoke at

     

    @ 17 about building a nuclear fusion reactor in my garage