Co-founder & CEO of Defex Robotics. Ex-researcher at the University of Michigan and Shanghai Jiao Tong. I live in San Francisco.
| Where | Role | When | What |
|---|---|---|---|
 Defex Robotics |
Co-founder & CEO | Mar 2026 – now | Self-teaching robots for manufacturing. |
 Powell St |
Resident | Sep 2026 – now | Hacker house. 10+ companies into YC and a16z speedrun. |
 University of Michigan |
Student & researcher | 2025 – 2026 | UM–SJTU dual degree. Dropped out. |
 Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
Researcher | Jan 2026 – Jun 2026 | Optical diagnostics in Prof. David Hung’s lab. |
 BuildCored |
Co-founder & CEO | Jan 2026 – now | Non-profit, 1,500+ engineering students. Runs Orcas, a 30-project build sprint. |
 Lumiere Education |
Research scholar | Feb 2026 – Jun 2026 | Meta-analysis of 80 battery-AI datasets. |
 Silkroad Fellows |
Fellow | Jul 2026 – Aug 2026 | One of ten fellows, Menlo Park. |
 Tracky POS |
Co-founder | Jun 2025 – Jan 2026 | Cut RFID labeling costs 97% for retail shops. |
 Top100Uni Project |
Mentor | May 2025 – Jul 2025 | Mentored top-university applicants. |
 Non-Trivial |
Fellow | Feb 2025 – Apr 2025 | Selective fellowship for young people on big problems. |
 TKS |
Innovator | Full scholarship | First from Uzbekistan. Won a $10K hackathon. |
 Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University |
Researcher | Sep 2024 – Jun 2025 | Polymer electrolytes for Li-ion batteries. |
 Arifov Institute of Ion-Plasma and Laser Technologies |
Research assistant | Jun 2024 – Sep 2024 | Lithium-ion battery materials. Physics workshop for 250+ students. |
 QVANT Youth |
Leading author | Jun 2023 – Jun 2025 | Science writing for Central Asian youth. |
 Brand Center |
Co-founder | 2021 – 2022 | Clothing shop. $20K monthly revenue within two months. |
Orcas is the 30-day build sprint we run at BuildCored: one project a day, skip a day and you're out. Ten builders ran v1.5. These are their projects. More at buildcored.com/projects.
| Day | Project | Builder | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RockLook | Abdulatif | Look down and rock music starts playing. Look up and it pauses. |
| 2 | AirCanvas | Samira | Pinch your fingers to draw on your screen. Like a magic pen. |
| 3 | VolumeKnuckle | ken | Raise your fist to turn volume up. Lower it to turn it down. |
| 4 | BlinkLock | Abduraxim | Blink three times fast to lock your screen. Wink to unlock. |
| 5 | FaceEQ | Sharpvex | Turn your head to scrub a song. Tilt to change the pitch. |
| 6 | BreathClock | ken | Your computer listens to your breathing and counts BPM. |
| 7 | KeyboardOscilloscope | noobmaster | Press keys to create tones. Multiple keys form visible chords. |
| 8 | PocketAgent | ken | Run an AI assistant entirely on your laptop. No internet. |
| 9 | WhisperDesk | Sharpvex | Talk to your laptop and it types what you say. Offline. |
| 10 | TerminalBrain | Sharpvex | Terminal watches for errors, suggests fixes using local AI. |
| 11 | MoodSynth | ken | Type a mood and AI creates ambient sounds to match. |
| 12 | SnapAnnotator | Asteria | Webcam snaps a photo, AI labels everything it sees. |
| 13 | DailyDebrief | Asteria | AI reads your git commits and writes a summary of your day. |
| 14 | RegisterBot | Abdulatif | Build a tiny computer inside your computer. The whole thing. |
| 15 | AudioScope | Asteria | See sound. Frequencies dance on screen from your mic input. |
| 16 | EchoKiller | ken | Record your voice with echo, then build a filter to remove it. |
| 17 | PWMSimulator | Adham | Slide a control, watch a square wave change. A virtual LED dims. |
| 18 | DepthMapper | Asteria | Webcam estimates distance to everything. Paints a depth map. |
| 19 | I2CPlayground | Asteria | Simulate how chips talk to each other. Watch signals animate. |
| 20 | SensorLogger | Sharpvex | Laptop becomes a live sensor dashboard: mic, camera, CPU. |
| 21 | UDPOscilloscope | Abdulboriy | Send sensor data over your network, display as oscilloscope. |
| 22 | CircuitWhisperer | Mehribon | Draw a circuit on paper, photograph it, AI reads it. |
| 23 | ObjectFollower | Abdulatif | Point camera at a colored object, your code tracks it live. |
| 24 | HardwareTA | Sharpvex | AI reads hardware datasheets and answers your questions. |
| 25 | FirmwarePatcher | Adham | Load a firmware file, AI finds hidden patterns in raw bytes. |
| 26 | CacheSim | Sharpvex | Simulate CPU memory cache. Watch hits, misses, evictions. |
| 27 | SignalFlags | Asteria | Teach your computer to read semaphore signals from your hands. |
| 28 | MorseDecoder | Sharpvex | Tap spacebar in Morse code, computer decodes the message. |
| 29 | SilentAssistant | Sharpvex | Camera sees you, AI understands, responds, speaks back. |
| 30 | OrcaOS | Abdulatif | Combine the best of 30 days into one personal OS. Ship it. |
I forked every one of these into this account (orcas-v15-*) so they stay up even if the originals get deleted.
v2.0 is open. Apply at buildcored.com.
Asian champion in Ashihara karate (2021). I speak English, Russian, Uzbek, Turkish and Chinese.
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