the lab / 12 experiments
Things I built
to see if they could exist.
Speech, vision, sound, brains, games and, lately, always-on AI agents. Some shipped, some were research, some are still being built. New ones land here as I make them.
buildingAI Agents · Always-On
Stira: An Agent That Watches Production
An always-on agent that keeps your production infrastructure in check and steps in before small problems turn into disasters.
buildingAI Agents · iOS
Aide: Ambient Intelligence on Your iPhone
An event-based agent that lives on your iOS device, reads signals like health and location, and quietly does research in the background to keep you updated.
2026AI Agents · Always-On
Max & Optimist: Agents With Their Own Computer
Always-on agents built at RISA Labs on top of BossConsole. Each has its own computer, deep integrations and an extensive toolset. Optimist works in healthcare; Max is general purpose.
2025AI/ML · Product
Pixelsurf: Games From a Single Prompt
Wired LLMs together until a sentence came out the other end as a playable game. Built the whole thing solo.
2023Computer Vision · AI/ML
Teaching OpenCV to Read Lips
Google Summer of Code: speech recognition that listens and watches, so it still works when the room is loud.
2022Computer Vision · AI/ML
Reading Age and Gender From Grainy CCTV
Tore down a vision pipeline that failed on real footage and rebuilt it until it hit 82% gender accuracy on blurry, low-light frames.
2022AI/ML · Computer Vision
Real-Time Hand Gesture Recognition
Machines that understand hand movements as they happen: skeleton tracking, TCNs and DeepGRU at 90% accuracy.
2022AI/ML · Infrastructure
Shrinking Models to Fit on Tiny Devices
An automated quantization-aware training pipeline that took edge model deployment from days to hours.
2022Mentorship · Reinforcement Learning
Can RL Agents Learn to Be Altruistic?
Dropped reinforcement learning agents into game-theory worlds and watched cooperation emerge. Mentored the research at IIT Kanpur.
2021Computer Vision · AI/ML
Making Blurry Photos Sharp With SRGAN
A from-scratch TensorFlow SRGAN that invents believable detail when upscaling images.
2021AI/ML · Generative Models
Generating Raw Sound With WaveGAN
A from-scratch TensorFlow WaveGAN that turns random noise into audio, one sample at a time.
2021Neuroscience · Machine Learning
Math vs Story in the Human Brain
fMRI plus machine learning to tell, with 97% accuracy, whether a brain is doing maths or following a story.