azra bano
engineer · ece + math · rutgers
Trailhead
i study ece + math at rutgers.
i'm an engineer who researches / engineers / deploys — builds to make impact on our world & i build communities to help people do the same.
i got my first job at a yc startup at 14 and kept expanding from there. since then i've worked on:
- the system that forecasts youtube's ads made it recover 360x faster
- a startup that catches broken robot firmware before it ships neural alloy, ceo
- ai that takes out your trash
- 172 driverless cars sharing san francisco with nobody in charge #1 at y combinator's rl hackathon
- a fruit fly's brain, compiled onto a microchip
- the tool that caught a stanford ai benchmark silently dropping 35% of its test
- a nasa-funded robot swarm 1st of 290+ teams
- first-author research on spotting leukemia with quantum models
- and more
outside of work, i like to hike & travel & make videos for my future kids / read / host. i go to hackathons every weekend, and like experimenting with new technologies.
if you're working on something technically difficult or socially important:
azrabano.work@gmail.com / dm me
The route — seven stops, north to south
the hike
one trail through the dolomites. tap a stop to walk there.
drag to look around
Level 01 — Base camp
education
where the trail starts. signals, systems, and proofs.
Level 02 — The approach
experience
real teams, real load, real deadlines.
big sur, north to south
Level 03 — The ridge
projects
things i built because i wanted them to exist. software and hardware.
drag to look around
Level 04 — The rope team
leadership
nobody summits alone. i build the communities that get people up there.
The people
Level 05 — Cairns
awards
markers left along the way.
Level 06 — Above the treeline
research
where the map runs out.
Level 07 — The summit
why i climb.
At the top — off the clock
the part of the hike
that isn't on the resume.
Outside
People
Small things
Packed for the hike
i LOVE food. humble and hungry.
- 01 hiking & travel
- 02 food. a lot of it
- 03 iced coffee
- 04 porsches
- 05 making videos for my future kids
- 06 reading
- 07 hosting
- 08 a hackathon, every weekend
On the fridge
as always,
carpe diem
Paintings in the public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Home photograph via Unsplash. Terrain: Esri World Imagery, Mapzen elevation. Photographs my own.