Aryan Musharaf
I've spent the last few years at the Georgia Institute of Technology studying Computer Science. Broadly, I'm interested in reasoning about the world around us. For me, this manifests in several ways:
Work
Currently, I study the applications of machine learning methods to science, focusing on biological contexts, with Amirali Aghazadeh. In the past, I have worked on:
Not Work
- I try to spend a lot of my free time reading. I think most questions you could have in life have been asked and answered many times before, and I try to find answers of my own whether it's in history books, biographies, fiction, or even academic papers/textbooks.
- One day I hope to teach when I am able. Few things are more beautiful than helping impart knowledge to someone that is hungry for it.
- What is the brain, really? Are we just functions generated by hundreds of years of evolution, fine-tuned by our lived experience?
- I have always believed in the existence of a soul, something more than our base instincts. Can we rigorously prove that such a thing exists?