About me
I’m San. I work on AI at eBay, write about the things I’m trying to understand, and make small worlds you can explore.
Background
Timeline →- 2015–19NIT KarnatakaElectrical engineering
- 2019–22Texas InstrumentsChip design
- 2022–24UC San DiegoMS, computer science
- 2024–noweBayApplied AI research
Work and interests
My day-to-day work is in language models and information extraction. Before that I studied computer science at UC San Diego, designed chips at Texas Instruments, and trained as an electrical engineer at NIT Karnataka. Along the way I co-founded Glyp, a writing assistant for novelists, through UCSD’s StartR accelerator. It didn’t make it to market, and I wrote about what went wrong.
I’m interested in what AI can do in the physical world, how we make powerful systems go well, and the places we might choose to build. Some of that becomes research. Some becomes an essay, a film, or an experiment.
Films and space projects
Paper Robots is where I turn selected ideas into illustrated essays and animated films. Dyson Swarm is my space collection, including a walk inside an O’Neill cylinder and a simulation of a civilization building around a star.
I make these with AI tools, on purpose. AI has opened a new medium and its horizon keeps moving; I’m out exploring where its edge is, and each essay, film and world here tries something new with it.
This site keeps the wider picture: the research, the projects that worked, the startup that didn’t, and the path between them.