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hey! i'm aryan.

this website has stuff about me and the work ive done.

working on...

im a part of the north team at cohere logo cohere researching methods and techniques to orchestrate LLMs and make knowledge workers much much more productive. previously, i was training language models with a focus on synthetic data techniques.

current interest: i think llms are being highly underutilzed on the application layer, stuck in the initial chat + 'tool calling' paradigm which we need to break through.

actual work & personal projects

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quick summary (longer one here)

  • july 2023 to present – trying to make large language models useful to humans doing their jobs. involves:
    • ai/ml features for chat interfaces
    • synthetic data for training llms and then vlms
    • building tools to connect to enterprise sources
    • context engineer, debugging, creating evals
    • now: agent orchestration, harness improvements
  • july 2021 to june 2023 – working on enabling low-touch high-performance synthetic worlds that generate data for computer vision models.. i.e. perception package for Unity Technologies
  • june 2017 to may 2021 – studied computer science and philosopy at Grinnell College. favorite classes: philosophy of mind, automata theory, algorithms, metaphysics!
  • december 2018 to march 2020 – worked at the data analysis and social inquiry lab making information about alumni outcomes accessible to current students via an interactive React app
  • april 2016 to june 2018 – worked on creating three beautiful websites via cutting edge web technologies such as React, NextJs, and SSG. (1) amchemproducts.com (2) drythane.com (3) amshield.com
  • 1990s to april 2016 – ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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todo list

  • add a post about something
  • add more detailed project breakdowns
  • add analytics to track your every movement muahaha
  • remove remaining capital letters