I am passionate about science outside of the classroom, and here I would like to present to you some of my science related interests. Currently, the purpose of this webpage is not to list my experiences, but to simply give you an insight into my interests.
I have always loved the intersection between technology and life sciences, and that is why I am drawn to artifical neural networks. Artificial neural networks roughly simulate the way that biological neural networks (like your brain) propogate information. In my mind, the fact that artificial neural networks can perform heuristic tasks that your brain does (such as reading text) shows that they reveal some hidden, universal geometry of intelligence. But what is a neural network? Neural networks take on various forms and modalities, however the one that you see on this webpage is a convolutional neural network. Convolutional neural networks apply stochastically optimized convolutional filters on an image, intelligently discerning what data class the image belongs to.
I am fascinated by the complex mechanisms that allow for living things to exist on the molecular level. Proteins are like nano-machines that perform tasks, allowing life to perform its basic metabolic functions. I believe that the study of proteins has some of the most exciting potential for advancing science in the future. This thing being displayed is actually not an incoherent blob, but a marvellously engineered chain of amino acids that combine together to perform a special task. In the case of this protein, it can break down polymers of plastics.