I'm a student doing undergrad CS, really interested in complexity theory, machine learning, and math in general.
Prior to choosing to major in CS, I was almost certain I would pursue a career in mathematics,
but participating in a few university courses hooked me on CS.
Welcome to my website.
I build things out of thoughts that won’t leave me alone. I write and collect the fragments that feel important. I’m also documenting my journey—
what I’m learning, what I’m building, and the questions I haven’t answered yet.
Isolated with way too much free time, I joined a Discord community called
Homework Help, home to over 150,000 members.
There, I discovered a passion for teaching mathematics, spending countless hours educating thousands of people.
My contributions earned me recognition as a Valued Contributor by the server owners.
Over time, I learned calculus and LaTeX, creating helpful resources for the server.
I resigned in 2022 to pursue other endeavors.
Yearning for more math & teaching
After resigning, I realized I had created a huge void in my life. Seeking inspiration, I attended the University Expo in Qatar,
where I met representatives from MIE University. Impressed by my notes on Euler's Identity,
they invited me to deliver a talk at their university.
I learned Beamer, prepared a presentation alongside my notes, and presented to undergraduate CS students.
Research galore
A peer introduced me to Weill Cornell’s Doctors of the Future Research competition and suggested we compete together.
Leading the team, I helped analyze desalination models and their feasibility in Qatar to address national water scarcity.
We made it to the finals.
Disaster @ CMUQ
The summer before my senior year of high school, I attended Carnegie Mellon University’s
Summer College Preview Program—a three-week course designed to give high school students a taste of the CMU experience.
Naively, I chose CS as my major, assuming it would be the closest to mathematics.
I couldn’t have been more wrong. My time at CMU was so transformative that it made me question my plans for the future.
Seeing my programming skills, CMU lecturers and students encouraged me to consider studying CS.
For my final project, I programmed a robot to find the area of any continuous, closed shape
using Riemann sums with custom input widths—one last tribute to my love for mathematics.
Writing college essays pays off!
In December, I represented my school in the 9th Annual Inter-School Literary Competition in Qatar, competing in essay writing.
Ironically, this came after months of writing endless college admission essays.
I placed second for my essay on climate-sustainable technology.
Marhaba Tartan (& Stanford)!
I applied and was accepted as a Section Leader at Stanford University's Code In Place program, teaching and preparing python lessons for 15 students over the course of 6 weeks based on Stanford's introductory programming class.
Within the same week, I officially became a Tartan!
