3×3 Rubik’s cube time
F2L + beginner method
- 01 30.98
- 02 32.81
- 03 36.01
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I’m Asher, a Phillips Academy Andover graduate and first-year student at Stevens Institute of Technology. I like working on novel problems and truly believe that if whatever I build isn’t for others, there is no point in building it at all.
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Some of my research interests are LLM optimization, African and multilingual NLP, state space models and world models in aerial robotics, and mechanistic interpretability.
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I love challenging myself by learning hard things. I also like solving puzzles, reading, cooking, and playing basketball. Check out my progress on some of my mini goals down below!
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Research projects
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SentinelQA: Built a multilingual instruction system with task-level routing, accepted as a system paper for the WMT26 @ EMNLP shared task.
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BiniQA: Built the first multimodal cultural knowledge question-and-answer dataset with linguists from the University of Benin, accepted for the MRL26 @ EMNLP shared task.
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Aerial World Models: Building a low-cost micro-UAV testbed to study communication-aware latent dynamics models, RSSMs, and Dreamer-style world models under communication, compute, and telemetry constraints.
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TonER: A high school senior research project developing a linguistically informed evaluation framework for diacritic-sensitive neural machine translation outputs.
Notebook ↓
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Datasets
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Edo Monolingual Corpus: The first scraped repository of non-biblical Edo text, with over 12,000 records.
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BiniQA: A multimodal cultural knowledge question-and-answer dataset.
In progress
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Awards & contributions
- Congressional App Challenge, 2025
Bridges, a JavaScript app for student connection with a live translation feature. - Abbot Academy Fund, 2025
Awarded $1,000 to fund a recurring AI student community hackathon.
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Experience
- Software Engineering Intern, 2025–2026
Vontech — Python, JavaScript, and Go for backend scripting and internal team tools. - Pascaline.org, 2025
Rust, JavaScript, and Tauri for an educational app designed to run offline.
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Track my goals
Reading list
- Fear
- How Countries Go Broke
- What Is Mathematics?
- Reasons and Persons
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
Past finished books
- The Alchemist
- Why Machines Learn
- A Little History of Philosophy
- Riddles in Mathematics
- The Misbehavior of Markets
Zetamac highscore
120s normal settings
- 01 61
- 02 59
- 03 58
Piano piece list
- Prelude in C-sharp Minor
- Moonlight Sonata, 3rd Movement
- Étude Op. 25, No. 1
- Ballade No. 1
Past finished piano pieces
- Fantasie-Impromptu
- Liebestraum