when I’m not doing research, I am probably making music, brewing coffee, and reading poems.

music

I play keyboard, guitar, and bass in my spare time. Here is a curated playlist of my music.

During my Master’s, I made Headhunter, a musical instrument that responds to head movement. You can read more about it here.

coffee

Cryptography is hard, and so is dialing in the perfect shot. Some of my favorite research papers on coffee include:

Systematically Improving Espresso: Insights from Mathematical Modeling and Experiment

Chemical strategies to mitigate electrostatic charging during coffee grinding

Here are a few of my latte art attempts:

Poetry

I love reading poetry in my spare time. This one is probably my all-time favorite:

Scheherazade by Richard Siken