From ideas to things

Projects & experiments

A selection of things I’ve built, investigated, and brought into the world.

01 / NOW

Venomics AI

I’m building Venomics AI to explore venom-derived molecules for therapeutic discovery. The work brings biodiversity and machine learning into the same research programme.

02 / HARDWARE

HAL51 & LemurBox

At HAL51, co-founded with Sanghyun Han, I developed frugal XR hardware. LemurBox turns a smartphone into a display for a rigged, LLM-powered 3D avatar. Bringing these educational avatars into classrooms made AI safety a practical engineering problem.

03 / KINEMATICS

UnifyID AI Labs

As the first employee and Chief Scientist, I worked on modelling human kinematics using IMU motion-sensor data. I also ran an AI fellowship spanning five cohorts between 2016 and 2021. UnifyID was acquired by Prove in 2021.

04 / VISUAL SURVEYS

The SPICE cabinet

Survey Papers as Interactive Cheat-sheet Embedding: visual, editable surveys that let readers follow references and see a field at a glance. The collection covers out-of-distribution detection, transformer architectures, and “X is all you need” papers.

05 / AFTER HOURS

Art on the playa

From time to time, I write code, blog, and bring experiments to Burning Man. Camp BYTE stands for Burners for Ÿntelligent Technology Emancipation.

Ideas are better in conversation.

Research, collaborations, or a good question.

vinayup@gmail.com