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Tolstoy Contributors<\/h1>
<\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Tolstoy is built by an entirely distributed team. Several people have contributed to Tolstoy since its inception in spring 2018. We acknowledge all of them here.<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Rosa Lin, Founder<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Formerly in biology, journalism, and international development. College at 15. Grew up in the Texas countryside.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Arjun Puranik, Data science<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Likes to ponder NP-hard problems. Stanford BS, MS in Mathematics and CS. Tetris aficionado.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Scott Jones, Data science<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Astrophysics PhD turned data scientist. Enjoys the lakeside chill of Waterloo, Canada.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Prerna Kashyap, NLP<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Bookworm. Internationally ranked on HackerRank. Hails from the tropics of Bangalore. Masters at Columbia.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Albert Xu, NLP<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Left the shores of academia at USC to plunge into industry. Enjoys snowboarding and doting on his two cats.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Shreyas Krishnaswamy<\/strong>, Data science<\/strong><\/h4>\n

From the plains of Pleasanton, CA. Into hiking, reading history, and playing Civ V. Berkeley EECS MS.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Preeti Amin, Extern (Summer 2020)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Chemical engineer turned data scientist. Loves walking the beautiful redwoods of South Bay, California.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Salim Chemlal, Extern (Fall 2019)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Machine learning PhD, formerly in health tech. Passionate educator from the mountains of Morocco.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Ruth Schulz, Extern (Fall 2019)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

CogSci and Robotics PhD from Australia. Hobbies include doting on her two young daughters.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Yi-Lin Chen, Extern (Summer 2019)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

CS and Statistics Double Masters. Knows machine vision kung fu. From Taipei, Taiwan.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Ru Chen, Extern (Summer 2019)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Physics PhD. Lawrence Berkeley Postdoc. NLP whiz from the bustling metropolis of Beijing.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Ryan Liu, Extern (Winter 2019)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Finance mathematics PhD. Used to roam the wilds of Wall St., now enjoys homemade bread in Berkeley, CA.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Rafael Takei, Frontend<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Frontend ninja. Enjoys slaying foes on Valorant and League of Legends in spare time. From Sao Paulo, Brazil.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Allen Kong, Backend<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Backend and data science. Might also be found slaying foes on Valorant and League of Legends. Based in Brooklyn, New York.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Lucy Zhao, Design<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Industrial engineer from the banks of Lake Ontario. Loves languages. Ideal Saturday morning spent in a French class.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Chris Kok, Data science<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Aerospace\/ML engineer from Iowa. Enjoys reading and obsessively checking the price of cryptocurrencies.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Kujtim Rahmani, ML Engineer<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Computer vision PhD. Former habitue of math competitions and karate classes. Based in Macedonia.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Gleb Azeev, Backend<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Python, Java ninja. Superhuman ability to stay awake. Based in the Russian steppes of St. Petersburg.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Prabhas Kurapati, Intern (Summer 2023)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Berkeley EECS major. Origami enthusiast and budding film connoisseur. From the sunny sands of Florida.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Niki Collette, Intern (Summer\/Fall 2020)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Program manager of Laputa (flying indoor robot project). Hails from the beaches of San Diego.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Alok Elashoff, Intern (Summer 2020)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Berkeley undergrad and avid board gamer. Especially fond of banana bread. Logs on from sunny Los Angeles.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Tejas Thvar, Intern (Summer 2020)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Berkeley EECS. Badminton pro and Call of Duty fan. From the hills of Los Altos, California.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Pranay Kashyap, Intern (Summer 2020)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Prerna’s little brother. ‘Nuff said. Based in Delhi.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Rahul Hayaran, Intern (Spring 2020)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Berkeley EECS undergrad. Enjoys cooking Indian fusion food and making origami flashers. From the wildlands of Plano, TX.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Suchita Joshi, Intern (Fall 2018)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Stanford AI4ALL program. Builds robots competitively from base in Cupertino, CA.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Isha Puri, Intern (Fall 2018)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Won 2nd at INTEL 2018. Built a CNN that detects dyslexia in children with 90%+ accuracy. From the woods of upstate NY.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Michelle Tran, Intern (Fall 2018)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Cybersecurity buff. Also into robotics. Also cross-stitching. CS major nestled in Boulder, Colorado.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Michelle Yakubek, Intern (Summer 2018)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Spelling bee champion. Likes NLP projects in obscure Southeast Asian languages. CS at MIT.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Meggie Su, Intern (Summer 2018)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Junior chess champion. Loves art, too. CS at UChicago.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Lora Johns, Apprentice (Spring-Summer 2019)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Lawyer turned aspiring data scientist. Yale Law JD. Also former librarian. Based in the Big Apple.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Arjun Kumar, Operations<\/strong><\/h4>\n

An avid Mongolian throat singer. MS in MechE at Univ. of Illinois \u2013 Urbana Champaign.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Steve Shwartz, Advisor<\/strong><\/h4>\n

AI veteran who led tech at several companies, including 3 IPO’s. Yale PhD. Enjoys hiking in Connecticut and rocking out to Pink.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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