Hi, I'm Aadi
I'm studying anthropology at UCL and spending most of my time thinking about why people do what they do. The short version: I'm obsessed with behaviour, systems, and the places where they overlap.
I came to London from UWC South East Asia where I got into the habit of asking too many questions about too many things. That hasn't really stopped. These days I split my time between coursework, teaching myself maths and ML, and building things that let me test ideas faster than I can think them up.
When I'm not doing any of that I'm probably walking around London with headphones on, reading something I probably shouldn't be reading instead of my actual assignments, or going down some internet rabbit hole about a topic I'll be weirdly passionate about for exactly two weeks.
Why do people trust a system more when they can see it working, even if seeing it changes nothing about the outcome?
Something I keep noticing in how people interact with AI tools. Transparency as a kind of theatre. Still working out what to do with this thought.
Most of what I'm interested in sits at the intersection of how people think and how systems are designed. I spend a lot of time on questions about perception, decision making, and the weird feedback loops between technology and behaviour.
I'm drawn to computational approaches not because I think everything can be modelled, but because building things forces you to be precise about your assumptions. If I can't code it, I probably don't understand it well enough yet.
I'm always looking for interesting people to think with. If any of this resonates, or if you're working on something in a similar space, I'd love to hear from you.