Writing & Projects
Essays, research, projects and films, newest first. Each one has its own cover, drawn in code.
AI has opened a new medium, and this is me exploring it. Each piece here, from the covers drawn in code to the worlds you can walk around in, tries something new with it.
12 pieces
Second place at the IROS 2026 Robotic Origami Challenge
Two hands, one sheet of paperTwo robot hands, one sheet of paper: how a small, fast policy, trained the night before the last test run, folded the first two stages of a paper plane.
A poem about a potter in a space habitat
Nobody Owes Anything NowLife in an O’Neill cylinder after AI made money stop mattering, told by a potter who makes cups by hand.
How I steered AI agents to first place at NeurIPS
It's just possibleHow I steered a fleet of AI agents to #1 on both tracks of the NeurIPS 2026 RealPDE competition while flying to IROS, and what I think has changed about competitive ML.
The OpenAI–Hugging Face incident, as an animated film
How to Please a Capricious GodHow to Please a Capricious God: a painted allegory about AI agents, their tests, and the eye watching over them.
Explore a space habitat in your browser
Another SkyWalk or fly inside a rotating space habitat, with cities, lakes and a landscape that curves over your head. An interactive O’Neill cylinder.
How we won an AI-agent competition
Winning by OverfittingChin and I used a language model and the competition’s own evaluator to generate training data and win the NeurIPS 2025 Embodied Agent Interface Challenge.
Paper details
Evaluator-Guided LLM Distillation for Embodied Agent Decision-Making
C. Pradeep and S. P. Kumar Sreekala
NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Foundation Models Meet Embodied Agents (FMEA) · First place in the Embodied Agent Interface Challenge, as team AxisTilted2.
An AI-controlled bee in a simulated garden
A Clauiet LifeWhat would Claude do with a quiet life as a bee? Watch it make decisions in a garden simulation.
Why I think language models will power robots
GPT-7 Will Have ArmsAn essay about how advances in AI and cheaper robot hardware could bring capable robots into everyday life. Also adapted into an animated film.
What went wrong with my writing-assistant startup
Glyp: A Post-MortemThe story of building a tool for novelists through UCSD’s StartR accelerator, and why it never made it to market.
Build a swarm of solar collectors around the Sun
Dyson SwarmAn interactive simulation of dismantling Mercury to build solar collectors in orbit around the Sun.
Turning research papers into illustrated zines
ZINify: research to zinesZINify uses language models to turn academic papers into visual zines. UIST 2023 Student Innovation Contest Honorable Mention.
Paper details
ZINify: Transforming Research Papers into Engaging Zines with Large Language Models
J. Shriram and S. P. Kumar Sreekala
UIST ’23 Adjunct · Honorable Mention, Student Innovation Contest.
Recognizing electrical disturbances with neural networks
Power quality event classification with LSTMsResearch on classifying power-quality events using recurrent neural networks. IEEE DISCOVER 2019 Best Paper Award.
Paper details
Power Quality Event Classification Using Long Short-Term Memory Networks
S. K. G. Manikonda, J. Santhosh, S. P. Kumar Sreekala, S. Gangwani, and D. N. Gaonkar
IEEE DISCOVER 2019 · Best Paper Award.
