hey, i'm mikael.
19yo obsessed w. everything chips.
👨‍💻 Currently, I am:
- Learning EE from first principles @ the University of Waterloo w/ the $120K Schulich Leaders Scholarship [press release]
- Building a 10ÎĽm chip fab in my dorm room, aiming to create an open-source chip fab process for <$10K and ~1,000 transistors [announcement] [memo]
- Designing ASICs—currently burning a GPT-2 layer on silicon, with past projects including a tpu-like systolic array & and a neuromorphic chip for neural implants—ISSCC pending [gpt2 repo] [systolic array repo]
- Pursuing scrappy hardware & software projects [github][portfolio]
For an extremely detailed overview of the work I have done in the past, check out my portfolio!