lakshya

about

i study software engineering at the university of waterloo

and i'm building origin, a way to talk to machines without talking.

currently

• decoding intended speech from the body's own signals, so what you mean reaches a machine faster than a keyboard could ever carry it
• collecting and selling somatosensory data to research labs + physical ai and robotics companies
• first year, uwaterloo software engineering

what i've done

• machine learning research on surgical intelligence at harvard @ 17
• talked my way into a real partnership with interac @ 17. a hundred thousand transactions, recommenders at 0.87 auc
• software engineering intern at zebra @ 16, shipping medical documentation tools on low-compute handhelds
• an ai consulting project with microsoft @ 15. modelled data centre operations, found two billion dollars a year on the table
• vex worlds twice, provincial champions, software lead then captain
• 45/75 in the ccc, top ~2.4% globally
• taught fifth graders to code @ 7

built fast

• jaw2control, silent commands to whatever you happen to be looking at
• vursor, cursor for video editing. y combinator called, interviewed us out of 1500 builders, then passed. now building something better
• aicruiter, a hyper-realistic ai agent that runs interviews end to end, answering in about a second
• cheetcode, a chrome extension that takes control of your laptop mid-interview, solves the leetcode, writes it out for you, and slips past cheating detection
• mind-controlled wheelchair, top six nationally at hosa

github · last 30 days

live from github.com/LakshyaV

trying to

• make talking to a computer as private as thinking
• meet people building stuff