Dr.'s Journey

Scientist, engineer, storyteller. This path began in high school and has been shaped by years of deliberate effort. On this page, I document my key achievements as a testament to the journey so far — and a guiding map for the years to come.

2026

📝 Books I'm Reading This Year
📝 Interpretability Papers I'm Reading
📝 Cool ML + AI + SWE Articles I Read This Year
📝 Cool ML + AI + SWE Podcasts I Watched This Year
🕹️ Marina OS (The Home for My Offbeat Storytelling)
🕹️ The True Love Series (An Ode to My Future Husband)
🕹️ Luna Capra (A Poetry Book with a New Entry Every Week)
🗺️ Lived in Denver^†

2025

📝 10 Goals for My Next 10 Years
📝 66 Ideas for Fun with the Fam
📝 Guidelines for Collaborating with Me
📝 Travel with the Fam: The Bucket List
📝 Classic Books to Read with Our Kids
📝 Classic Movies to Watch with Our Kids
📝 Classic Videogames to Play with Our Kids
📝 What We'll Teach Our Kids in Their First Years
🕹️ Loyal Love Lore (A Different Type of Blogging)
🕹️ Samhain'25 (A Playful Halloween Spell Game)
🕹️ Demons (A 5th-Wall Storytelling Experiment)
✅ Collaborated with hellas.ai, as a Principal Blockchain ML Engineer
✅ Collaborated with Greenfield Capital, as a Senior Software Engineer
✅ Joined the Esoterica Community for an In-Depth Study in Egypt
✅ Joined the Network State in Malaysia for 2 months
🗺️ Lived in Hamburg, Berlin, Valencia, Malaysia, Oahu, Brazil, The Netherlands, and New Orleans

2024

🕹️ TV (An Innermost Human Experiment)
🕹️ Lilit (What If Astrology Were Actually Real)
✅ Founded urani.trade, a Decentralized Platform for DeFi Agents
✅ Won 1st Place at the DeFi Track of the Solana Colosseum Hackathon
✅ Turned Down a $3M Investment Offer for Urani, Led by Greenfield Capital
✅ Joined ETH Denver and Ethereum DevCon in Thailand
✅ Dubai's Storm Large-Scale Miracle while I was in Cannes
🗺️ Lived in Berlin, Cannes, Singapore, Santorini, Tokyo, Osaka, Catania, and Seattle

2023

📝 My Favorite Movies && Books
📝 My Favorite Directors && Musicians
🕹️ cyph3rs (A MEV Agents Marketplace)
✅ Took the Life-Changing Psilocybin Heroic Dose
✅ Learned the Kabbalah and Started Performing Large-Scale Miracles
✅ Collaborated with Ethereum Foundation, as a Research Engineer
✅ Collaborated with Espresso Foundation, as a Senior Software Engineer
🗺️ Lived in Los Angeles, Munich, and Malta

2019

🕹️ Droning + Traveling + Art Music Video Experiments
✅ Collaborated with Surfline, as a Senior Software Engineer
✅ Collaborated with Reaction Commerce, as a Senior Software Engineer
✅ Collaborated with Quantum Gravity Research, as a Research Engineer
✅ Joined Beyond The Boundaries Snowboarders at Woodward Tahoe
✅ Dropped in on the Ramp at Tony Hawk's House without a Helmet
✅ Almost Died Surfing Big Waves in Puerto Escondido, Mexico
🗺️ Lived in Encinitas, Malibu, and Maui

2017

✅ Joined the Security Team at Etsy, as a Senior Software Engineer
✅ Joined the San Francisco Filmmaking School for 2 months
✅ Went Skydiving in San Jose on the Day I Quit My Job at Apple
🗺️ Lived in Oahu, San Francisco, and Manhattan

2015

✅ Spoke at DEF CON on "Hacking Quantum Computers"
✅ Joined the Security Team at Yelp, as a Software Engineer
✅ Joined the CoreOS Team at Apple, as a Senior Software Engineer
✅ Joined and Hacked with the CTF teams Hacking for Soju and Snatch the Root
🗺️ Moved to San Francisco and Cupertino

2014

🕹️ chmod +x singularity.sh (an old ML project)
✅ Concluded a PhD in Physics from Stony Brook University
✅ PhD Research at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico
✅ Turned Down a Postdoctoral Offer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
✅ Paper "Modeling X-Rays Bursting Neutron Stars" (The Astrophysical Journal)
✅ Joined the Hacker School (Recursive Center) in New York City for 3 months
✅ Published book: "Python, Algorithms, and Data Structures" with Hanbit Media

2013

🕹️ A Grad Student Playing with Her Archaic Robots
✅ PhD Research at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York
✅ Paper "On Heavy Ion Collisions at the BNL Collider" (Phys. Review C)

2011

🕹️ The Cosmos Is All That Is (My PhD Website and Portfolio)
✅ Earned a Master's Degree in Physics (en route) from Stony Brook University
✅ Wrote books: Group Theory, Quantum Field Theory, and Quantum Information

2009

🕹️ My Old Lil Bytegirl's Page (My College Portfolio)
🕹️ Saturn, Strings, Everything Else (my college site)
📝 My Old Geeky Bookmark (What I Used to Like Back Then)
✅ Joined the CERN Winter School on Particle Physics in Medellin
✅ Joined the Simons Workshop in String Theory '09 at Stony Brook University
✅ Joined the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for the Summer, as a Graduate Student Researcher from CUA
✅ Started a PhD in Physics (String Theory) at Stony Brook University with Full Tuition, Teaching, Research Scholarship
🗺️ Lived in Curitiba, Washington DC, and Chile; moved to Long Island

2008

🕹️ That Time I was an Atheist Materialist (My Old Wikipedia Page)
✅ Earned a Bachelor's Degree in Physics from the University of Sao Paulo
✅ Joined the Simons Workshop in String Theory '08 at Stony Brook University
✅ Aced both the GRE Physics and the Quantitative section of the General GRE
✅ bitcoin.org was Registered on My Birthday and a P2P Electronic Cash Published on Halloween
🗺️ Lived in Sao Paulo

1999

🕹️ My Older Lil Bytegirl's Page (My First Website)
✅ Programmer Job at Conectiva Linux in Curitiba
✅ Watched Pulp Fiction, the Greatest Movie Ever Made
✅ 1st Place at the National High School Science Fair (MOSTRATEC), with a project on Expert Systems

^† I consider myself to be living in a city whenever I spend more than a month in my own apartment there.