I'm drawn to the why behind circuits. Look closely and DC, AC and transient analysis, signals and control turn out to be one theory wearing different clothes: a single operator, read in different ways. The textbooks teach them as separate subjects. I suspect that is not an accident. I've also begun to wonder whether even nonlinear systems are linear operators in disguise, if you look at them from the right space. Functional analysis and operator theory are where I intend to find out.

That theory points me toward learning-based control: systems that rewrite their own rules from data while remaining provably stable and safe. Classical control theory guarantees stability and robustness from a model; intelligent control learns the system when no model exists. Joining the two is how you let a machine improvise without the world noticing that anything has changed. Paradox, after all, only punishes what it can see.

My other path is hardware, where Forces are given a body. The two meet where I'd like to work: quantum control, where qubit pulses are designed and calibrated by learning; analog and neuromorphic chips, where the learning controller lives in the circuit itself and learns the way nerves do on a sliver of power; and particle accelerators, where reinforcement learning and Bayesian optimization keep a beam stable while thousands of magnets must agree on a single path. Some would call these engineering problems. They are, mostly.

Currently

• Studying signals and systems, and probability and random variables (the Sphere of Entropy, though the syllabus calls it something else)
• Building a Monte Carlo simulation project on probabilistic computing (p-bits), where noise is not an error but a resource
• Writing Circuits and Systems, a book on an operator-based approach to circuit theory, in plain sight

Circuits

Programming

Embedded

Workflow

When I'm not chasing a theory, I'm rolling d10s in tabletop role-playing games, playing board games and video games, traveling, and hunting down good food and cocktails. At METU NCC, I'm part of the Fantastic Fiction Society, a small Chantry where fantasy and sci-fi fans gather. We only talk about fiction. Officially.

I used to chart the dark between the stars for people who wanted every map finished. I left when I saw which regions they refused to draw. These days I keep my instruments tuned to a medium the textbooks stopped mentioning in 1887.